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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)

Introduction


Working with files and directories is natural with most software and something we, as users, do every day, but as a developer, you will quickly find that it can be more complex than expected, especially when multiple platforms have to be supported or encodings are involved.

The Python standard library has many powerful tools to work with files and directories. At first, it might be hard to spot those across the os, shutil, stat, and glob functions, but once you are aware of all the pieces, it's clear that the standard library provides a great set of tools to work with files and directories.