Once you have learned your way around Python and want to make your programming useful, I recommend that you pick up the O’Reilly book Programming Python by Mark Lutz, now in its second edition.

Learning Python, 5th Edition Programming Python, 4th Edition For sheer comprehensiveness and all-in-one-ness, nothing beats Mark Lutz’s Learning Python and Programming Python.

Python 3.11 will bear the fruits of CPython's multi-year effort to make Python a faster programming language.

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