I'll second Serious Python. It's a fairly quick read, and introduces a number of topics concisely. It helped me become more aware of areas of Python that I'd li

I'll second Serious Python. It's a fairly quick read, and introduces a number of topics concisely. It helped me become more aware of areas of Python that I'd like to learn more about. I have other higher-level Python books that I'm taking much longer to get through because they're more in depth. Serious Python strikes a really nice balance of covering things well enough to help you understand them, but not going into so much depth that you take forever to get through the book.