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Not free, but I highly recommend "Programming Collective Intelligence" if you are looking for python examples applicable to web applications. http://oreilly.com

• kranner 16y ago
  That book has the worst Python code ever in a print publication.
  • drats 16y ago
    I'm not a computer scientist nor really a programmer and I found it very readable. Care to elaborate?
    • kranner 16y ago
      I read it when it came out which was a while ago. I found it to be very unidiomatic Python at the time. More critique at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208895 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208895 if you'll chase the parent links.
      • metamemetics 16y ago
        Idiomatic, no (agreed). Very readable, yes (I think the style was intentional). For tutorials, I generally implement everything myself as part of the learning process and avoid source copy-pasting. So I wasn't irked but YMMV depending on learning style.
  • silentbicycle 16y ago
    The book is quite approachable for people who are curious about ML and don't necessarily have a strong math background, though. After reading it, other ML literature has been quite a bit easier for me to follow. In its defense, I think the Python code was written to be readable, rather than necessarily idiomatic. I started doing the exercises in Lua, and haven't had a hard time translating them thus far.