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Book review: 390+ Python Interview Questions and Answers

I downloaded a preview portion of 390+ Python MCQs from Anazon, thinking reading through it would help me advance my Python skills beyond what I have learned from Harvard’s online CS50P (Python) course. I’m an experienced program looking to add a new skill to my repertoire, and while the course covered many significant aspects of Python programming, there are many other details to perfect, such as best practices, developing packages, and so on. The book is written by Manish Dnyandeo Salunke, who claims 15 years experience in IT,  but it is not clear who published it. It is obvious no one edited it, or verified the correctness of the questions, answers and explanations. Amazon allowed me to download a sample of (I think) 57 questions. Roughly half of these were wrong, and some of the others struck me as irrelevant. The maximum allowed length for an identifier, apparently, is 79 characters. Anything over 20 characters should be considered unusual, so sufficient to say the limit is severa