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Python Pocket Reference: Python in Your Pocket (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

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I'm a beginning programmer and I found this reference book very handy. It won't teach you how to program in python, but it is an indispensable quick reference for the usage of common commands and methods once you learn the basics. Worth every penny.

This is a great little book. I have had three revisions of it and plan to get the next one when it is published. I keep it in my mini 10v running ubuntu linux (9.10) netbook's sleeve when I travel. Perfect little reference and easily worth the cost.

The more I code in Python, the more I love it (my other favorite, Ruby, falls short in many critical areas that Python excels at, such as scientific computing, artificial intelligence prototyping, GPU programming extensions, etc.). The fact that I can use my C libraries for bit-level tweaking and major speedup on resource intensive tasks make Python an even bigger winner compared to many other scripting languages.

This reference book is helpful to jot your memory as you code, and although it's not by any means comprehensive, it does come very handy when you forget what regex format to use, or what binascii methods to call, etc.

The book itself is physically small and very portable.

At nearly 200 pages, this pocket reference includes a comprehensive reference to the entire Python language (versions 2 and 3) and lots of the most commonly used standard libraries, including math, time, sys, os, re, pickle, and tkinter. It even contains some Python coding tips in the back and it's still small enough to fit in your pocket.

Look it a no brainer. All the stuff you use most is crammed into this book.

Bathroom reading has never been better. Just get it.

This is not an actual book, its just a pocket reference providing info on methods available in python. Thats it. So buy it only if you know python beforehand and just want to know the library.

The 4th edition is a good reference for the language itself. The content for 2.6 and 3.x Python are in there. It is not however a reference for the libraries. Most libraries are only mentioned by name, and their functions are not enumerated in a useful way. For instance, the network libraries are mentioned, but there is no detail on their functionality.