Reviews for Dive into Python 3 (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

1. A book for beginners by amateur writers

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2010

   Very disappointing.
   
   I was looking for a book aimed at teaching Python to a professional developer. This book has been written in a style suited for beginners who probably don't know any other programming language.
   
   The book starts off with 30 pages of screenshots discussing how to install Python on various platforms, then presents the reader with tutorial type chapters on various aspects of the language. There's only about 100 pages of real information on the language itself. The remaining chapters discuss fringe subjects such as regular expressions, unit testing, refactoring, http services, porting, etc.
   
   Not sure where the 500 pages were. The book only has about 350 in total, with only about 100 discussing the language itself.
   
   The book itself is a print-on-demand type, with low grade paper and is in black and white (i.e. code is not color highlighted).