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エキスパートPythonプログラミング改訂2版
本書は、Pythonを使って仕事をしている開発者が普段どのようなツールやテクニックを用いて仕事をしているのか、また開発者が実際に現場で用いているベストプラクティスについて解説した書籍です。本書を読むことで、先進的なPythonプログラマが日常的に使用している開発ノウハウを学ぶことができます。
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December 16, 2017
I remember reading the first edition of this book some year ago. It was a nice read, which I enjoyed, despite not being among my favorite Python books. So that as soon as I saw that a new version was released, I changed my reading schedule to dive into this one. Overall, I cannot complaint. It's an average book which does cover topics that are more often than not left untouched by most Python titles available. On the other hand, I was expecting more than what the good old first edition provided. I must, of course, take into account the fact that practically all of the content of this bok was already known to me, which partially biases my final thought.
The book is split into 14 chapters. It is well written and the discussion flows well through the paragraphs. While not native, the author writes down plain good English, which is something that must not be taken for granted in Packt Publishing books. The book starts with an introduciton on the current status of the language and the many problems v3 caused. An interesting chapter, even though it doesn't get as deep as it should. It then discusses best practices. Here I start having my first doubts: best practices are an excellent subject, no doubts. But the author ends up talking about concepts such as MRI and the abstract syntax tree. If you are a Python developer and never heard of them, do not worry. You won't really need them unless you are interested in the very core of the language, at which point this is not the book you are looking for.
Several chapters we find later on are, again, interesting maybe, but probably not necessary. Chapter 4, for example, is about good names. Excellent. Now, given the fact that picking good names should be the first thing we learn as we start studying any programming language, the author often uses names related to ice creams or similar. Similarly, the chapters dedicated to managing the code, aka how to use Git, and documenting the code are not bad but, according to me, should not be here.
From a book that should take the beginner Python developer into the next level I would expect coverage of topics such as distributing and deploying code, as well as concurrency. Generators. Debugging. Lambdas. Some of these concepts are discusses. Chapter 6, for example, covers the deployment of code. I enjoy it very much when an author discusses the 12-factor application concept, as well as when he provides good hints such as making sure the code runs in user space. Definitely my favorite chapter of the fourteen.
Overall, not bad. Not among the best Python books out there, but not bad. Being happy with the first edition, I was expecting more. The real problem was not the quality of what has been provided, but according to me the choice of topics.
I still suggest Fluid Python and Effective Python to anyone interested in advanced Python topics.
The book is split into 14 chapters. It is well written and the discussion flows well through the paragraphs. While not native, the author writes down plain good English, which is something that must not be taken for granted in Packt Publishing books. The book starts with an introduciton on the current status of the language and the many problems v3 caused. An interesting chapter, even though it doesn't get as deep as it should. It then discusses best practices. Here I start having my first doubts: best practices are an excellent subject, no doubts. But the author ends up talking about concepts such as MRI and the abstract syntax tree. If you are a Python developer and never heard of them, do not worry. You won't really need them unless you are interested in the very core of the language, at which point this is not the book you are looking for.
Several chapters we find later on are, again, interesting maybe, but probably not necessary. Chapter 4, for example, is about good names. Excellent. Now, given the fact that picking good names should be the first thing we learn as we start studying any programming language, the author often uses names related to ice creams or similar. Similarly, the chapters dedicated to managing the code, aka how to use Git, and documenting the code are not bad but, according to me, should not be here.
From a book that should take the beginner Python developer into the next level I would expect coverage of topics such as distributing and deploying code, as well as concurrency. Generators. Debugging. Lambdas. Some of these concepts are discusses. Chapter 6, for example, covers the deployment of code. I enjoy it very much when an author discusses the 12-factor application concept, as well as when he provides good hints such as making sure the code runs in user space. Definitely my favorite chapter of the fourteen.
Overall, not bad. Not among the best Python books out there, but not bad. Being happy with the first edition, I was expecting more. The real problem was not the quality of what has been provided, but according to me the choice of topics.
I still suggest Fluid Python and Effective Python to anyone interested in advanced Python topics.
April 5, 2020
Great touch on lots of subjects, including deployment, documentation and asynchronous programming. Definitely saving this one for references on my virtual bookshelf.
December 24, 2022
Easy read, with a well laid out format. Plenty of advanced tips that can help improve your code.
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