I bought the PDF version of this a few weeks ago and it is pretty straightforward. Doesn't really teach you anything about classes/object-oriented programming. It really has a strong focus on getting sh*t done and is well-suited for it. Overall I would recommend this if you already have some programming experience.

By the way, if you have the book and are experiencing problems with `pip3 install python-docx` on OS X Yosemite, the solution is to install the Xcode command line tools first:

xcode-select --install

Then `pip3 install python-docx`