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Learn Python Programming - Second Edition

By : Fabrizio Romano
4.5 (2)
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Learn Python Programming - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Fabrizio Romano

Overview of this book

Learn Python Programming is a quick, thorough, and practical introduction to Python - an extremely flexible and powerful programming language that can be applied to many disciplines. Unlike other books, it doesn't bore you with elaborate explanations of the basics but gets you up-and-running, using the language. You will begin by learning the fundamentals of Python so that you have a rock-solid foundation to build upon. You will explore the foundations of Python programming and learn how Python can be manipulated to achieve results. Explore different programming paradigms and find the best approach to a situation; understand how to carry out performance optimization and effective debugging; control the flow of a program; and utilize an interchange format to exchange data. You'll also walk through cryptographic services in Python and understand secure tokens. Learn Python Programming will give you a thorough understanding of the Python language. You'll learn how to write programs, build websites, and work with data by harnessing Python's renowned data science libraries. Filled with real-world examples and projects, the book covers various types of applications, and concludes by building real-world projects based on the concepts you have learned.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Dealing with data

Typically, when you deal with data, this is the path you go through: you fetch it, you clean and manipulate it, and then you inspect it, and present results as values, spreadsheets, graphs, and so on. I want you to be in charge of all three steps of the process without having any external dependency on a data provider, so we're going to do the following:

  1. We're going to create the data, simulating the fact that it comes in a format that is not perfect or ready to be worked on
  2. We're going to clean it and feed it to the main tool we'll use in the project such as DataFrame from the pandas library
  3. We're going to manipulate the data in DataFrame
  4. We're going to save DataFrame to a file in different formats
  5. We're going to inspect the data and get some results out of it
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