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Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

By : Daniel Arbuckle
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Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

By: Daniel Arbuckle

Overview of this book

Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python covers the basics of operating in a Python development environment, before moving on to more advanced topics. Daniel presents you with real-world solutions to Python 3.6 and advanced-level concepts, such as reactive programming, microservices, ctypes, and Cython tools. You don't need to be familiar with the Python language to use this book, as Daniel starts with a Python primer. Throughout, Daniel highlights the major aspects of managing your Python development environment, shows you how to handle parallel computation, and helps you to master asynchronous I/O with Python 3.6 to improve performance. Finally, Daniel will teach you the secrets of metaprogramming and unit testing in Python, helping you acquire the perfect skillset to be a Python expert. Daniel will get you up to speed on everything from basic programming practices to high-end tools and techniques, things that will help set you apart as a successful Python programmer.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about writing readable code, version control to keep track of our code, and about the venv tool and the isolated virtual environments it creates. You learned how to format our docstrings to take advantage of automated tools, such as IDEs and the Sphinx documentation compiler. You also learned about writing examples into our documentation and how to use the doctest tool to check whether the examples and code are synchronized

In the next chapter, you'll get to learn how to turn a package into a program that can be run from the command line.