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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
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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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Documenting Your Project

Documentation is the work that is often neglected by developers and their managers. This is often due to lack of time toward the end of development cycles, and the fact that people think they are bad at writing. Even though some developers may not be very good at writing, the majority of them should be able to produce fine documentation.

The common result of neglecting the documentation efforts is a disorganized documentation landscape that is made up of documents written in a rush. Developers often hate doing this kind of work. Things get even worse when the existing documents need to be updated. Many projects out there are just providing poor, out of date documentation because no one in their team knows how to properly deal with it.

But setting up a documentation process at the beginning of the project and treating documents as if they were modules of...