Like its predecessor, the new edition offers a collection of solutions to problems that Python programmers face everyday. Updated for Python 2.4, it now includes over 200 recipes that range from simple tasks, such as working with dictionaries and list comprehensions, to complex tasks, such as monitoring a network and building a templating system.
We expect that you know at least some Python. This book does not attempt to teach Python as a whole; rather, it presents some specific techniques and concepts (and occasionally tricks) for dealing with particular tasks.