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From: Ethan Furman on 25 Mar 2010 08:28 Michele Simionato wrote: > On Jan 16, 9:27 pm, mk <mrk...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>Hello everyone, >> >>I looked for it I swear, but just can't find it. >> >>Most Python books seem to focus on examples of how to call functions >>from standard library. I don't need that, I have online Python >>documentation for that. >> >>I mean really advanced mental gymnastics, like gory details of how >>Python objects operate, how to exploit its dynamic capabilities, dos and >>donts with particular Python objects, advanced tricks, everything from >>chained decorators to metaprogramming. Dive Into Python comes closest to >>this ideal from what I have found, but still not far enough. >> >>Anybody found such holy grail? > > "Expert Python Programming" by Tarek Ziad� is quite good and I wrote > a review for it: > > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240415 > > There is plenty of info about Advanced Python on the net, much more > than in book form. Come to think of it, there are my Oxford lectures > (the title was exactly "Advanced Python Programming") and I could > republish it on my blog, since I cannot find them on the net anymore. > > Michele Simionato Michele, Was wondering if you'd had a chance to re-post your lectures -- just did a search for them and came up empty, and I would love to read them! Many thanks in advance! ~Ethan~ |