Workshop Reviews

• "Overall it seemed like Dave has managed to pack about one full semester's worth of information into this workshop. If you get a chance to take one of his classes or just want some training I would highly recommend him." - Andriy Drozdyuk
• "David's presentation skills were enviably clear, efficient and easygoing. One of the best things about the class was that we would talk for awhile, and then Dave would toss us a problem, and we'd hack for awhile on that. Then we'd go back to talking, followed by more hacking, and so on. This really allowed the concepts to cement much more quickly than they would have if Dave just talked the whole time." - John Jacobsen.

PyCon Tutorial Reviews

• "This was my favorite technical talk at PyCon and I learned quite a bit. It happens that his book on Python is one of my favorite all time python books, so it was great to learn from him in person. If you get a chance to do a training session with David, do it, it. You will get more than your money's worth." - Noah Gift (PyCon 2008).
• "This is a great guide on generator functions in Python, including use cases. The slides from his presentation (available as a PDF from the linked page) may be the best tutorial I've seen on the subject so far." - Daniel Andrlik (PyCon 2008).
• "This was an excellent tutorial that continued from where David's Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers tutorial from PyCon 2008 left off." - Daryl Spitzer (PyCon 2009).
• "Until then, I'd never looked at David Beazley's instruction materials, but immediately was dumbstruck at the beautiful directness, clarity, and simplicity of his style. He was both lucid in the topics while conveying great enthusiasm for them."Duncan McGreggor (PyCon 2009).

Book Reviews

• "Hits the sweet spot of concise usefulness." (9/10 rating) - Slashdot

• "Python Essential Reference is exactly what the title says - it's *essential*... [It] is a book that you must have on your bookshelf." - Dr. Dobb's CodeTalk

• "This is not a book for learning Python. It is a book for writing Python." - Doug Hellmann

• "This is the book I've been looking for. If you want to know how the language works under the covers and how to best use it, this book is invaluable." - Amazon.com customer review

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