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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

By : Molina
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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

By: Molina

Overview of this book

The Python 3 Standard Library is a vast array of modules that you can use for developing various kinds of applications. It contains an exhaustive list of libraries, and this book will help you choose the best one to address specific programming problems in Python. The Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook begins with recipes on containers and data structures and guides you in performing effective text management in Python. You will find Python recipes for command-line operations, networking, filesystems and directories, and concurrent execution. You will learn about Python security essentials in Python and get to grips with various development tools for debugging, benchmarking, inspection, error reporting, and tracing. The book includes recipes to help you create graphical user interfaces for your application. You will learn to work with multimedia components and perform mathematical operations on date and time. The recipes will also show you how to deploy different searching and sorting algorithms on your data. By the end of the book, you will have acquired the skills needed to write clean code in Python and develop applications that meet your needs.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Containers and Data Structures

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Counting frequencies—count occurrences of any hashable value
  • Dictionary with fallback—have a fallback value for any missing key
  • Unpacking multiplekeyword arguments—how to use ** more than once
  • Ordered dictionariesmaintaining order of keys in a dictionary
  • MultiDictdictionary with multiple values per key
  • Prioritizing entriesefficiently get the top of sorted entries
  • Bunchdictionaries that behave like objects
  • Enumerationshandle a known set of states