[erikschoster]

Reading this was really useful for me. It does a great job of going into depth on high level topics like the python data model and also goes deep into lots of more isolated practical topics like covering useful data structures buried in the standard library, a very good discussion of unicode, and concurrency topics, etc, etc.

Python is changing a lot and there is for example no in-depth discussion of the typing module in this book because PEP 484 had only just been written the year before its publication. There's still about four pages dedicated to the topic written as an aside to chapter 11 which discusses interfaces.

Even though it's 5 years old and there have been plenty of additions to the language in that time, I think the book is still plenty useful today -- I still pull it off the shelf as reference from time to time if I'm going into the weeds.