Rating: 

This is a great book to have around, not as a reference but as a routemap for getting around various programming domains "the Python way". The most apt comparison I can think of is with Programming Perl, another great travel guide which is similarly frustrating if what you really want is a) to learn the language from scratch, or b) to look up some particular module or language feature. Programming Python should be seen primarily as an expository text: an extended gloss on the meaning of the word "Pythonic", and a boon and helpmeet to the working programmer who wants to use Python now to do stuff.