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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
4
Section 2: Python Craftsmanship
12
Section 3: Quality over Quantity
16
Section 4: Need for Speed
20
Section 5: Technical Architecture
23
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Summary

Design patterns are reusable, somewhat language-specific, solutions to common problems in software design. They are a part of the culture of all developers, no matter what language they use.

So, having implementation examples for the most used patterns for a given language is a great way to document it. In many sources (web articles and books), you will easily find an implementation for every design pattern mentioned in GoF books. This is why we concentrated only on patterns that are most common and popular in the context of the Python language.

We covered the three most important groups of design patterns (creational, structural, and behavioral) with some practical examples of their implementation. This short and opinionated selection of patterns should already help you to improve your application structure. But this list is not complete. Fortunately, after reading this...