I’ve been recommending “The Python Cookbook” to my peers and anyone who will listen. Its not an earth shattering, change your life book, and it doesn’t have a recipe for curing cancer. What it does have is some extremely well written solutions to common and uncommon problems so the recommendation to read the cookbook is made for those just getting into Python and who need a good source of examples for doing things in a more pythonic way.

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