The Best Python Books

8 Rankings

Dive Into Python

by Mark Pilgrim

Dive Into Python is a hands-on guide to the Python language. Each chapter starts with a real complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together again in a summary at the end.

7 Rankings

Python Cookbook

by Alex Martelli, David Ascher, Anna Ravenscroft

A collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples written by Python programmers in the style of the popular Perl Cookbook. Anyone interested in Python programming will want this wealth of practical advice, snippets of code, and patterns of program design

3 Rankings

Python in a Nutshell

by Alex Martelli

This book offers Python programmers one place to look when they need help remembering or deciphering the syntax of this open source language and its many powerful but scantily documented modules. This comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up the most frequently needed information--not just about the Python language itself, but also...

3 Rankings

Learning Python

by Mark Lutz, David Ascher

Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. Python is considered easy to learn, but there's no quicker way to mastery of the language than learning from an expert teacher. This edition of Learning Python puts you in t...