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Another "Intermediate Python" book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/149055095X

Is this another book, too? https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython very confusing

Author here! This is totally unrelated to the posted book.

That is totally different from my book :) I haven't read it so I can not tell how much different it is from mine. Perhaps you can tell if you have read it?

I was right about to buy it, completely blind, based on the similar title, because a good deed deserves a good deed: I support anyone who gives their book away for free online and offers a hard-copy (Learn You a Haskell, I'm looking at you) for purchase.

Let me know if you have an Amazon affiliate link, tipjar, or need help with any projects.

Edit: whoa, at least 5 redditors had the same "do you have a paypal?" sentiment. I suggest you have a header on visit and start collecting opt-in emails. That way, people like me will be emailed the second you get all setup.

Edit 2: Also, this definitely is a good "resume" for consulting work. I'd put an "Available for Hire/Retainer" notice at the header of every page, in case someone has an overflow of work, and/or a corporate manager wants a flexible contractor asset available as an insurance policy for behind-schedule projects. Don't charge less than 150/hr in 20 hour blocks per month for retainer work (use it or lose it), and 175ish/hr for active work.

https://leanpub.com/intermediatepython author here.. Did you get to take a look at the book? It is actually free of charge on Leanpub

I think your book goes for breadth of topics while his primarily focuses on solid understanding of iterators, generators, and decorators.

p.s. I only looked at the "Enumeration" page in your book, and I don't think it belongs in an "intermediate" level Python book. The use of optional arguments makes little sense to me (not something I wanted to know about Python after I learned the basics).

I'm sure other chapters have more relevant content though, and I appreciate your effort.

I consider myself somewhere in the spectrum between beginner and intermediate and I use enumeration quite often. I picked it up early on in a tutorial by Andrew Montalenti (founder of http://www.parsely.com and quite active in the Python community) and use it ever since instead of wrapping it into another loop like beginner tutorials teach you. For example if I need to read in a file with 5 million lines but for debugging or performance optimization reasons want to break the loop after 1K lines.

All beginner tutorials I used introduced "enumerate" early on.

Indexing is probably the first thing you're wondering about when you start coding in Python after coding in C.

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