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I am at a high-beginner/low-intermediate level in Python, and one thing that drives me nuts is how poorly I am able to read the Python official documentation and grok how to use the described code.

What's the secret? Are there any guides/videos/books that can help my understand how to approach reading it? Or, is it just one of those things that I need to just keep coming back to while coding, and eventually I will get the hang of it?

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[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pick and choose. I actually like most of the Python Doc. Learned Python originally from their tutorial. Then learned key parts of the library. So I like those two documents. The other docs though can be deep. The language reference for example. Never read that except parts.

I also had a book about Tkinter and another about Win32 Python programming. So I learned from those too. My first app was a data acquisition too with a Tkinter GUI. So I think a few books are good but maybe people do not do that now.

For me, learned Python in a day mostly from their tutorial and the standard library reference, then it took me the next 9 months to actually get good at it. Then still learning stuff 25 years later. I did have an advantage. I had been programming for 20 years before I learned Python and had used half a dozen other languages.

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