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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


When writing software, you need tools that make achieving your goal easier and tools that help you to manage the complexity of the code base, which can get millions of line of code and can involve other people's code that you are not experienced with.

Even for small projects, if you are involving third-party libraries, frameworks, and tools, you are, in fact, bringing other people's code into yours and you will need a set of tools to understand what's going on when you rely on this code and to keep your own code under control and free from bugs.

Here is where techniques such as testing, debugging, profiling, and tracing can come in handy to verify the code base, understand what's going on, spot bottlenecks, and see what was executed and when.

The Python standard library comes with many of the tools you will need during daily development to implement most best practices and techniques in software development.