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Learning Python Application Development

By : Ninad Sathaye
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Learning Python Application Development

By: Ninad Sathaye

Overview of this book

Python is one of the most widely used dynamic programming languages, supported by a rich set of libraries and frameworks that enable rapid development. But fast paced development often comes with its own baggage that could bring down the quality, performance, and extensibility of an application. This book will show you ways to handle such problems and write better Python applications. From the basics of simple command-line applications, develop your skills all the way to designing efficient and advanced Python apps. Guided by a light-hearted fantasy learning theme, overcome the real-world problems of complex Python development with practical solutions. Beginning with a focus on robustness, packaging, and releasing application code, you’ll move on to focus on improving application lifetime by making code extensible, reusable, and readable. Get to grips with Python refactoring, design patterns and best practices. Techniques to identify the bottlenecks and improve performance are covered in a series of chapters devoted to performance, before closing with a look at developing Python GUIs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Python Application Development
Credits
Disclaimers
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


You learned how to document the code using the RST format. The chapter introduced the Sphinx document generator that was used to create an HTML documentation for our application code. You also learned about some important Python coding standards that helped improve readability. Finally, we saw how to check our application code for errors and style violations using code analysis.

In an ideal world, you wish your code fully confirms to the coding convention. Often, that is not the case for various reasons, ranging from new team members to tight project deadlines. Sometimes, to make it compliant with the coding standards, you will need to refactor it at a later stage. While doing so, you will also need to make sure no functionality gets broken. This is accomplished by writing unit tests. We will study these inter-related aspects in the next chapter.