Modern Python Cookbook: 133 recipes to develop flawless and expressive programs in Python 3.8, 2nd Edition
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Packt Publishing
Python is the preferred choice of developers, engineers, data scientists, and hobbyists everywhere. It is a great language that can power your applications and provide great speed, safety, and scalability. It can be used for simple scripting or sophisticated web applications. By exposing Python as a series of simple recipes, this book gives you insight into specific language features in a particular context. Having a tangible context helps make the language or a given standard library feature easier to understand.
This book comes with 133 recipes on the latest version of Python 3.8. The recipes will benefit everyone, from beginners just starting out with Python to experts. You'll not only learn Python programming concepts but also how to build complex applications.
The recipes will touch upon all necessary Python concepts related to data structures, object oriented programming, functional programming, and statistical programming. You will get acquainted with the nuances of Python syntax and how to effectively take advantage of it.
By the end of this Python book, you will be equipped with knowledge of testing, web services, configuration, and application integration tips and tricks. You will be armed with the knowledge of how to create applications with flexible logging, powerful configuration, command-line options, automated unit tests, and good documentation.
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"Reading well explained, up-to-date examples is a great way of mastering a language. Modern Python Cookbook, Second Edition is a fine collection of practical recipes for using Python 3.8 in an idiomatic way."
--Luciano Ramalho, Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks and author of Fluent Python
"Since the first version of this book, the Python language gained a lot of interesting features, and this second edition is a welcomed upgrade. Steven's book, Modern Python Cookbook, Second Edition, is an impressive 700+ page book that covers a LOT of knowledge in many aspects of Python 3.8 programming. If you like to have a book by your keyboard to get snippets of code for most of your Python needs, this is the one you should get. Look for what you need in the table of contents, grab a recipe, apply. Each recipe comes in the same well-structured format, which makes it very easy to read and understand. "
--Tarek ZIADE, Senior Staff Engineer at Mozilla
About the Author
Steven F. Lott has been programming since the 70s, when computers were large, expensive, and rare. As a contract software developer and architect, he has worked on hundreds of projects, from very small to very large. He's been using Python to solve business problems for almost 20 years.
He's currently leveraging Python to implement cloud management tools. His other titles with Packt Publishing include Python Essentials, Mastering Object-Oriented Python, Functional Python Programming, and Python for Secret Agents.
Steven is currently a technomad who lives in various places on the east coast of the U.S.
- See the intricate details of the Python syntax and how to use it to your advantage
- Improve your coding with Python readability through functions
- Manipulate data effectively using built-in data structures
- Get acquainted with advanced programming techniques in Python
- Equip yourself with functional and statistical programming features
- Write proper tests to be sure a program works as advertised
- Integrate application software using Python
The Python book is for web developers, programmers, enterprise programmers, engineers, and big data scientists. If you are a beginner, this book will get you started. If you are experienced, it will expand your knowledge base. A basic knowledge of programming would help.
- Numbers, Strings, and Tuples
- Statements and Syntax
- Function Definitions
- Built-In Data Structures Part 1: Lists and Sets
- Built-In Data Structures Part 2: Dictionaries
- User Inputs and Outputs
- Basics of Classes and Objects
- More Advanced Class Design
- Functional Programming Features
- Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout
- Testing
- Web Services
- Application Integration: Configuration
- Application Integration: Combination
- Statistical Programming and Linear Regression
