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The Python Apprentice

By : Robert Smallshire, Austin Bingham
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The Python Apprentice

By: Robert Smallshire, Austin Bingham

Overview of this book

Experienced programmers want to know how to enhance their craft and we want to help them start as apprentices with Python. We know that before mastering Python you need to learn the culture and the tools to become a productive member of any Python project. Our goal with this book is to give you a practical and thorough introduction to Python programming, providing you with the insight and technical craftsmanship you need to be a productive member of any Python project. Python is a big language, and it’s not our intention with this book to cover everything there is to know. We just want to make sure that you, as the developer, know the tools, basic idioms and of course the ins and outs of the language, the standard library and other modules to be able to jump into most projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
12
Afterword – Just the Beginning

Summary


  • The str Unicode strings and bytes strings:

    • We looked at the various forms of quotes (single or double quotation marks) for quoting strings, useful for incorporating quote marks themselves into strings. Python is flexible over which quoting style you use, but you must be consistent when delimiting a particular string.

    • We demonstrated that so-called triple quotes, consisting of three consecutive quotation mark characters can be used to delimit a multi-line string. Traditionally, each quote character is itself a double quotation mark, although single quotation marks can also be used.

    • We saw how adjacent string literals are implicitly concatenated.

    • Python has support for universal newlines, so no matter what platform you're using it's sufficient to use a single \n character, safe in the knowledge that is will be appropriately translated from and to the native newline during I/O.

    • Escape sequences provide an alternative means of incorporating newlines and other control characters into literal...