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Mastering Python 2E - Second Edition

By : Rick van Hattem
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Mastering Python 2E - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Rick van Hattem

Overview of this book

Even if you find writing Python code easy, writing code that is efficient, maintainable, and reusable is not so straightforward. Many of Python’s capabilities are underutilized even by more experienced programmers. Mastering Python, Second Edition, is an authoritative guide to understanding advanced Python programming so you can write the highest quality code. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated with exercises, four new chapters and updates up to Python 3.10. Revisit important basics, including Pythonic style and syntax and functional programming. Avoid common mistakes made by programmers of all experience levels. Make smart decisions about the best testing and debugging tools to use, optimize your code’s performance across multiple machines and Python versions, and deploy often-forgotten Python features to your advantage. Get fully up to speed with asyncio and stretch the language even further by accessing C functions with simple Python calls. Finally, turn your new-and-improved code into packages and share them with the wider Python community. If you are a Python programmer wanting to improve your code quality and readability, this Python book will make you confident in writing high-quality scripts and taking on bigger challenges
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how to add, use, and test type hinting in your code using both the built-in types and your own custom types. You learned how to write Markdown and reStructuredText to document your projects and your code itself. Lastly, you learned how to use the Sphinx documentation generator to generate fully functioning documentation for your projects.

Documentation can help greatly in a project’s popularity, and bad documentation can kill productivity. I think there are few aspects of a library that have more impact on the usage by third parties than documentation. Thus, in many cases, documentation is a more important factor in deciding the usage of a project than the actual code quality. That’s why it is very important to always try to have good documentation available. Sphinx is a great help in this case because it makes it much easier to keep your documentation up to date and matching your code. The only thing worse than no documentation...