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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

By : Alessandro Molina
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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

By: Alessandro Molina

Overview of this book

The Python 3 Standard Library is a vast array of modules that you can use for developing various kinds of applications. It contains an exhaustive list of libraries, and this book will help you choose the best one to address specific programming problems in Python. The Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook begins with recipes on containers and data structures and guides you in performing effective text management in Python. You will find Python recipes for command-line operations, networking, filesystems and directories, and concurrent execution. You will learn about Python security essentials in Python and get to grips with various development tools for debugging, benchmarking, inspection, error reporting, and tracing. The book includes recipes to help you create graphical user interfaces for your application. You will learn to work with multimedia components and perform mathematical operations on date and time. The recipes will also show you how to deploy different searching and sorting algorithms on your data. By the end of the book, you will have acquired the skills needed to write clean code in Python and develop applications that meet your needs.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


The HTTP protocol and, more generally, the web set of technologies, are being recognized as an effective and robust way to create distributed systems that can leverage a widespread and reliable way to implement inter-process communication with ready available technologies and paradigms for caching, error propagation, reiterable requests, and best practices for contexts where services might fail without impacting the overall system status.

Python has many very good and reliable web frameworks, from full stack solutions, such as Django and TurboGears, to more finely tweakable frameworks, such as Pyramid and Flask. However, for many cases, the standard library might already provide the tools you need to implement an HTTP-based software without the need to rely on external libraries and frameworks.

In this chapter, we will look at some some common recipes and tools provided by the standard library that can be convenient in the context of HTTP and web-based applications.