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Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

By : Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé
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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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Setting up continuous development processes

There are some processes that can greatly streamline your development and reduce the time in getting the application ready to be released or deployed to the production environment. They often have continuous in their name. We will discuss the most important and popular ones in this section. It is important to highlight that they are strictly technical processes, so it is almost not related to project management methodologies, although they can highly dovetail with the latter.

The following are the most important processes that we will mention:

  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous delivery
  • Continuous deployment

The order of listing is important because each one of them is an extension of the previous one. Continuous deployment could be simply considered as a variation of the same process. We will discuss them separately anyway, because...