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Text Processing in Python Review by Sean Fritz
A very good intro book
This book is interesting, the field it covers is not one with many texts, so it's hard to do comparative analysis.
On it's strengths, this book is probably best suited for programmers that aren't afraid to learn advanced material. It covers in great detail everything you ever wanted to know about python string processing (and honestly probably a bit more). It has a very readable style, and overall is exceptionally informative. Examples are clear, pointed, and useful.
On it's weaknesses, some material (ie parsers) might be extremely dense and hard to understand if you don't have a CS or Linguistics degree. On the other hand, if you do understand it (and the explanation is pretty good), you will end up a much better programmer for it.
Overall, I'd recommend this book for professionals with theory background that need to do advanced python work. I'd also recommend it to people without theory background, but only if they're not afraid of getting their feet wet. People who are afraid of learning should probably avoid this book.
4 stars mostly because I'm not really sure how to evaluate this book.