A very good overview of a lot of the finer points about Python (I knew I learned a lot).

But it is not really a book about "Expert Python Programming", as it is "a book about best practices in program development, as illustrated thru Python" more than anything else. And it does a wonderful work on that, as it gives you (the pupil) the necessary concepts and why they are good or bad, and with some examples, and then leaves out a lot of details, which forces you to find the info somewhere else. I would love to use it on a course for new developers, with some side reading thrown in.

It is better than just very good, but it fails to achieve excellence, due to the lack of details and the extremelly bad editing and cheap printing (some pictures are un-eligble).