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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)
Free Chapter
1
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
23
reStructuredText Primer

Installing additional Python packages using pip

Nowadays, a lot of operating systems come with Python as a standard component. Most Linux distributions and UNIX-based systems, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or macOS, come with Python either installed by default or available through system package repositories. Many of them even use it as part of some core components – Python powers the installers of Ubuntu (Ubiquity), Red Hat Linux (Anaconda), and Fedora (Anaconda again). Unfortunately, the preinstalled system version of Python is often Python 2.7, which is fairly outdated.

Due to Python's popularity as an operating system component, a lot of packages from PyPI are also available as native packages managed by the system's package management tools, such as apt-get (Debian, Ubuntu), rpm (Red Hat Linux), or emerge (Gentoo). It should be remembered, however, that...