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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


Multimedia applications, such as videos, sounds, and games usually need to rely on very specific libraries to manage the formats used to store the data and the hardware needed to play their content.

Due to the variety of formats for data storage, the continuous improvements in the field of video and audio storage that lead to new formats, and the heavy integration with native operating system functions and specific hardware programming languages, multimedia-related features are rarely integrated in the standard library.

Having to maintain support for all the image formats that exist, when a new one is created every few months, requires a full-time effort that a dedicated library can tackle far better than the team maintaining the programming language itself.

For this reason, Python has relatively few multimedia-related functions, but some core ones are available and they can be very helpful in applications where multimedia is not the main focus, but maybe they need to handle multimedia...