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How long does it take to read Python Essential Reference?

David M. Beazley

Python Essential Reference by David M. Beazley takes about 10 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 10 hours 14 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2000. 558 pages, about 153,450 words.

21 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 17 hours 3 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 10 hours 14 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Python Essential Reference, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive reference to the Python programming language. The focus of this latest edition is to add coverage of significant new features and new library modules added to the language over the past five years. Clearly written with concise organization, the new features covered include new style classes, unification of types and classes, xmlrpclip, intertools, bz2 and optparse, making it the most up-to-date Python book on the market.

Subjects: Computer Technology, Python (Programmiersprache), Nonfiction

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