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Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

By : Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé
Book Image

Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

By: Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé

Overview of this book

Python is a dynamic programming language that's used in a wide range of domains thanks to its simple yet powerful nature. Although writing Python code is easy, making it readable, reusable, and easy to maintain is challenging. Complete with best practices, useful tools, and standards implemented by professional Python developers, the third edition of Expert Python Programming will help you overcome this challenge. The book will start by taking you through the new features in Python 3.7. You'll then learn the advanced components of Python syntax, in addition to understanding how to apply concepts of various programming paradigms, including object-oriented programming, functional programming, and event-driven programming. This book will also guide you through learning the naming best practices, writing your own distributable Python packages, and getting up to speed with automated ways to deploy your software on remote servers. You’ll discover how to create useful Python extensions with C, C++, Cython, and CFFI. Furthermore, studying about code management tools, writing clear documentation, and exploring test-driven development will help you write clean code. By the end of the book, you will have become an expert in writing efficient and maintainable Python code.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Before You Start
4
Section 2: Python Craftsmanship
12
Section 3: Quality over Quantity
16
Section 4: Need for Speed
20
Section 5: Technical Architecture
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Your own package index or index mirror

These are three main reasons why you might want to run your own index of Python packages:

  • The official Python Package Index does not have any availability guarantees. It is run by Python Software Foundation thanks to numerous donations. Because of that, it means that this site can be down at the most inconvenient time. You don't want to stop your deployment or packaging process in the middle due to PyPI outage.
  • It is useful to have reusable components written in Python properly packaged, even for the closed source that will never be published publicly. It simplifies code base because packages that are used across the company for different projects do not need to be vendored. You can simply install them from the repository. This simplifies maintenance for such shared code and might reduce development costs for the whole company if it...