Why didn ' t he throw that to Reed ? <| sep |> Blink rapidly for a minute . Your eyelids will get tired and it will be easier to keep them closed . <| sep |> Laba did years ago <| sep |> I originally learned C and Python from Zed . Have had to relearn everything with KR and ' Fluent Python ' Ramalho . Cannot recommend that second book enough . The trouble I find with Zed ' s stuff after learning things properly is that he doesn ' t try to actually get the learners to understand the language and why constructs exist . It ' s very much an approach of , I want to do this thing and this is how I can do it in this language rather than taking the time to show the language ' s particular strengths . For example , which chapters of his book explain abcs properties the data model generators or anything that makes python good ? And sure , Python 2 is great , provided you don ' t think coroutines are interesting or you legitimately think having to declare something as inheriting from ' object ' every time is the ideal . Anyway fuck this guy .