Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming 1st Edition

I am an engineer who decided to learn how to code on my own. I experimented with a bunch of different languages but fell in love with Python. I now use Python for personal projects. I was watching a YouTube video where Gina Häußge (creator of octoprint) recommended it and attributed her work to things learned in the book. So I bought it hoping to better my skills.I read this book in chapter chunks, as there is a TON of information to gain from this book. I love the structure that Ramalho uses. He provides well written descriptions and explanations for each topic(something I cannot say for most textbooks). On top of that, he provides relevant code examples for almost everything he covers. Even better, he has step-by-step explanations for the code examples that follow the execution flow. This makes it much easier to understand if you have difficulty grasping the concept at first. Aside from coding the examples yourself, this is top notch for learning skills from text.For me, I was reading this book while working on a medium sized Python project. Even though I was not searching for anything specific in this book, the more I read, the more I found ways where I could implement his teachings into my project.Ramalho includes a section at the end of each chapter to offer his opinion on said topic. As a younger programmer, I appreciated the opinion from a professional and clearly well respected member of the Python community.If you write Python and want to gain a better understanding of the language (and perhaps found the Python docs hard to read like me), this book is for you. If you do give it a read, I hope you like it as much as I did.Thanks Luciano, excellent work!

Sounds like this is a good book that I have read from other reviewers. Unfortunately, Amazon malfunctioned and got stuck on a screen for a different book and then when they fixed whatever network problem instantly jumped to this book at random and self clicked then "Buy Now" button without me touching anything. Needless to say, a very dangerous flaw in Amazon's app design especially when they are having network problems and force people to make purchases they did not order and in this case did not touch anything at all. I have sent notice to Amazon regarding a refund. That said, looking over the details of this book the glitch forced me into, it looks like this might be a good book that I might be interested in purchasing and reading sometime in the future when and if there is more interest for me in programming in Python. From the write ups and reviews, it should be noted to readers that it looks like this particular book is for intermediate to expert level python programming audience and not a book for beginners or introducing Python. So as not to impact the prior star history of this book from other reviewers, I am leaving this comment 5 star and using this space as another means to reach out to Amazon regarding the bug in their network response.

I have been using Python for a few years mostly as a scripting language. As I have gained proficiency I wanted to dive deeper into best practices and a bit more under-the-covers. I found some good resources online for studying Python internals but that was not helping me write better code.This book is exactly what I was looking for. It covers the aspects of Python that are not obvious to people coming from different languages. It gives guidance on the best ways to use features and why they work the way they do. It touches on details of Python internals where they illuminate the behavior and choices a Python programmer might make but you won't get bogged down in Python byte code.This is not a book for beginners. It assumes a fair bit of knowledge. A beginner will want a wider coverage of topics and not get buried in details. (I really like "Learning Python" by Mark Luft and still go back to that from time to time.) This is for the Python programmer leveling-up. That is where I found myself and I am pretty confident this will help me get there.

The book is well written, clear, includes examples, author clearly knows the language very well and the way he talks about it shows how the programmer should be thinking. However, some syntax is slightly outdated, this is mostly harmless except for the chapter on asyncio, in which the module's interface has been integrated into the language with new "async/await" keywords. The author does make a note that at the time of writing the PEP that eventually introduced this chance was close to acceptance. Conceptually it is the same but the examples are not so relevant to how asyncio code is written in newer versions of Python.

Fluent Python was a joy to read. It captured my imagination like a John le Carré novel, I could not put it down. What would I learn next!For the last year, I have been trying to jump to the next level in my understanding of Python. I had been writing competent python code off and on for several years. I had a feeling of what the next level must be like, but I just could not grasp its full meaning. Fluent Python brought it all into focus. The perfect book at just the right time in my development as a python programmer. With each page, I gained a new insight into how to make my code more effective. At every juncture, I knew how I could apply what I had just read in my own programming. It was actually quite thrilling.Contrary to popular advice, I don't read sitting at the keyboard. But I often have to get out of my La-z-boy to go and try some confusing piece of sample code. Or the text is so poorly written, I have to backup and reread a section several times. Often, it becomes a chore to push through the last few pages of a chapter. But reading Fluent Python was exciting, I could put it down and finished the first ten chapters (~300 page) in one sitting.