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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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Python 3 adoption at the time of writing this book

So, thanks to new, exciting features, is Python 3 well adopted among its community? It's hard to say. The once-popular page, Python 3 Wall of Superpowers (https://python3wos.appspot.com), that tracked the compatibility of the most popular packages with the Python 3 branch was, at the beginning, named Python 3 Wall of Shame.

The site is no longer maintained, but in the list from the last time it was updated, on April 22, 2018, it shows that exactly 191 from 200 of the most popular Python packages at that time were compatible within Python 3. So, we can see that Python 3 seems to be finally well-adopted in the community of open source Python programmers. Still, this does not mean that all teams building their applications are finally using Python 3. At least, since most of the popular Python packages are available in Python...