> There needs to be an initial chapter for teaching Python in case the reader doesn't have the background.

I can't stand books that start with a half-baked Python tutorial. It's not only wasting the time of people who know, but worse, it's wasting the time of people who don't.

Because a one-chapter explanation on the topic is always going to be so superficial that the people who actually need it will never have the details they actually require to get up to speed. You will give them the illusion of understanding, only to let them hit a wall the first time they try any.

Before uv, install python package was a topic that required a lot more than a quick intro, explaining virtualenv, branching depending on OSes, even backtracking how to source the Python installer.

Better to just say "mastering this is a requirement prior reading the book" and be done with it.

There are full books on the topic that can actually help.

Replace this useless chapter with more content to which the book is actually dedicated.