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Learn Python in 7 Days

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Learn Python in 7 Days

Overview of this book

Python is a great language to get started in the world of programming and application development. This book will help you to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python. We begin with the absolute foundation, covering the basic syntax, type variables and operators. We'll then move on to concepts like statements, arrays, operators, string processing and I/O handling. You’ll be able to learn how to operate tuples and understand the functions and methods of lists. We’ll help you develop a deep understanding of list and tuples and learn python dictionary. As you progress through the book, you’ll learn about function parameters and how to use control statements with the loop. You’ll further learn how to create modules and packages, storing of data as well as handling errors. We later dive into advanced level concepts such as Python collections and how to use class, methods, objects in python. By the end of this book, you will be able to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Type Variables and Operators

Memory management


This is quite a fascinating topic and is also a big pain for any programmer who has to deal with memory-related issues such as memory leakage issues. However, since it is a big topic which needs to be covered at the intermediate stage, we will try to explain the very basics of the topic. In the earlier days, memory management used to be handled manually by all the programmers. Who could better understand manual memory management than C/C++ language programmers. New and modern programming languages such as Java and others are coming loaded with more advanced memory management mechanism, so programmers have to worry less in this area as every issue is taken care by the language garbage collection facility. We have already covered what is local scope and what is global scope are. Local scope of the function, contains parameters and variables. The complete local scope must be stored somewhere in the RAM of the computer. Language divides the RAM into two parts called run-time...