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The website is a guided repository of Python books and currently lists the best 100 books. It classifies these books into fine grained…",{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},"14775214","Some very good points indeed. Let me address them one by one. > Why should popularity automatically equate to quality? Popularity is the by far the best indicator of quality that…",{"value":58,"source":59,"evidence":60},"Python learners and developers choosing books","inferred",[61,62],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"14769652","martinmusio7","It structures the world of relevant python books quite well. Thanks, I appreciate it!",{"value":67,"source":49,"evidence":68},"Side project to organize Python books",[69],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":75,"objections":95,"requests":118,"questions":144,"alternatives":156},[76,85],{"value":77,"source":78,"evidence":79},"Well-structured, helpful list of Python books","commenter",[80,81],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"14769560","quangv","Pretty sweet! Anything similar for JavaScript? This is prolly there best list of Python books I've seen. Great job!",{"value":86,"source":78,"evidence":87},"Maker responsive to feedback",[88,92],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"14770384","chrisgd","Thanks for your hard work",{"id":93,"by":11,"text":94},"14770577","Thanks! I had a lot of fun making the site. I am also committed to keeping it comprehensive and updated. Made a powerful admin interface so that syncing would only take about 3-4…",[96,106,111],{"value":97,"source":78,"evidence":98},"Popularity via Amazon rank does not equal quality",[99,103],{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"14774364","bogomipz","The site states: \"The Bestseller Rank was chosen as the popularity scale. The Bestseller Rank loosely indicates how many copies of the book were bought recently on Amazon. This…",{"id":104,"by":101,"text":105},"14776446",">\"Don't agree with this. Many Packt books are high quality. I have read several, including the one by Dusty Phillips, which is above Powerful Python. 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Newer release years towards the top.",{"value":127,"source":78,"evidence":128},"Show Python version used in each book",[129],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"14771243","O4epegb","Would be cool to see what python version is used in the book",{"value":134,"source":78,"evidence":135},"Add a JavaScript equivalent",[136],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},{"value":138,"source":78,"evidence":139},"Add Hands-On Machine Learning book",[140],{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"14772308","elymar","Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurelien Geron is also pretty great. Would like to see that in the list.",[145,149],{"value":146,"source":78,"evidence":147},"How is the popularity score calculated",[148],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},{"value":150,"source":78,"evidence":151},"Are free books like Dive into Python included fairly",[152],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"14769786","kronos29296","What about the free ones like Dive into python, LPTHW and others. 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