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Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

By : Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé
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Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

By: Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé

Overview of this book

Python is a dynamic programming language that's used in a wide range of domains thanks to its simple yet powerful nature. Although writing Python code is easy, making it readable, reusable, and easy to maintain is challenging. Complete with best practices, useful tools, and standards implemented by professional Python developers, the third edition of Expert Python Programming will help you overcome this challenge. The book will start by taking you through the new features in Python 3.7. You'll then learn the advanced components of Python syntax, in addition to understanding how to apply concepts of various programming paradigms, including object-oriented programming, functional programming, and event-driven programming. This book will also guide you through learning the naming best practices, writing your own distributable Python packages, and getting up to speed with automated ways to deploy your software on remote servers. You’ll discover how to create useful Python extensions with C, C++, Cython, and CFFI. Furthermore, studying about code management tools, writing clear documentation, and exploring test-driven development will help you write clean code. By the end of the book, you will have become an expert in writing efficient and maintainable Python code.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Before You Start
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Section 2: Python Craftsmanship
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Section 3: Quality over Quantity
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Section 4: Need for Speed
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Section 5: Technical Architecture
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Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the elements of event-driven programming. We started from the most common examples and applications of event-driven programming to better introduce ourselves to this programming paradigm. Then, we precisely described the three main styles of event-driven programming that is callback-based style, subject-based style and topic-based style. There are many event-driven design patterns and programming techniques, but all of them fall into one of these three categories. The last part of this chapter focused on event-driven programming architectures.

As we are nearing the end of this book, you have probably noticed that the farther we go, the less we actually speak about Python. In this chapter, we have discussed elements of event-driven and signal programming, but we have barely talked about Python itself. We have, of course, discussed some examples...