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Learn Python Programming - Second Edition

By : Fabrizio Romano
4.5 (2)
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Learn Python Programming - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Fabrizio Romano

Overview of this book

Learn Python Programming is a quick, thorough, and practical introduction to Python - an extremely flexible and powerful programming language that can be applied to many disciplines. Unlike other books, it doesn't bore you with elaborate explanations of the basics but gets you up-and-running, using the language. You will begin by learning the fundamentals of Python so that you have a rock-solid foundation to build upon. You will explore the foundations of Python programming and learn how Python can be manipulated to achieve results. Explore different programming paradigms and find the best approach to a situation; understand how to carry out performance optimization and effective debugging; control the flow of a program; and utilize an interchange format to exchange data. You'll also walk through cryptographic services in Python and understand secure tokens. Learn Python Programming will give you a thorough understanding of the Python language. You'll learn how to write programs, build websites, and work with data by harnessing Python's renowned data science libraries. Filled with real-world examples and projects, the book covers various types of applications, and concludes by building real-world projects based on the concepts you have learned.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we took a look at web development. We talked about important concepts, such as the DRY philosophy and the concept of a framework as a tool that provides us with many things we need in order to write code to serve requests. We also talked about the MTV pattern, and how nicely these three layers play together to realize a request-response path.

Then, we briefly introduced regular expressions, which is a subject of paramount importance, and it's the layer that provides the tools for URL routing.

There are many different frameworks out there, and Django is definitely one of the best and most widely used, so it's worth exploring, especially its source code, which is well written.

There are other very interesting and important frameworks too, such as Flask. They provide fewer features but might be faster, both in execution time and to set up. One that...