[Tehchops]

In the case of "Fluent Python", the author fairly explicitly calls out it is not for rote learning of the basic language:

> ..."if you read it too early in your Python journey, it may give you the impression that every Python script should leverage special methods and metaprogramming tricks."

[disgruntledphd2]

But if you are familiar with a lot of the concepts and the basic syntax of Python, its wonderful. I never understood how all the magic methods in Python worked (and how nice they were) until I read that book.

I haven't finished it, but because of it am now able to write and read Python much, much better.