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Python for Geeks

By : Muhammad Asif
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Python for Geeks

By: Muhammad Asif

Overview of this book

Python is a multipurpose language that can be used for multiple use cases. Python for Geeks will teach you how to advance in your career with the help of expert tips and tricks. You'll start by exploring the different ways of using Python optimally, both from the design and implementation point of view. Next, you'll understand the life cycle of a large-scale Python project. As you advance, you'll focus on different ways of creating an elegant design by modularizing a Python project and learn best practices and design patterns for using Python. You'll also discover how to scale out Python beyond a single thread and how to implement multiprocessing and multithreading in Python. In addition to this, you'll understand how you can not only use Python to deploy on a single machine but also use clusters in private as well as in public cloud computing environments. You'll then explore data processing techniques, focus on reusable, scalable data pipelines, and learn how to use these advanced techniques for network automation, serverless functions, and machine learning. Finally, you'll focus on strategizing web development design using the techniques and best practices covered in the book. By the end of this Python book, you'll be able to do some serious Python programming for large-scale complex projects.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Python, beyond the Basics
5
Section 2: Advanced Programming Concepts
9
Section 3: Scaling beyond a Single Thread
13
Section 4: Using Python for Web, Cloud, and Network Use Cases

Sharing a package

To distribute Python packages and projects across communities, there are many tools available. We will focus only on the tools that are recommended as per the guidelines provided by PyPA.

In this section, we will be covering installing and distributing packaging techniques. A few tools that we will use or are at least worth mentioning in this section as a reference are as follows:

  • distutils: This comes with Python with base functionality. It is not easy to extend for complex and custom package distribution.
  • setuputils: This is a third-party tool and an extension of distutils and is recommended for building packages.
  • wheel: This is for the Python packaging format and it makes installations faster and easier as compared to its predecessors.
  • pip: pip is a package manager for Python packages and modules, and it comes as part of Python if you are installing Python version 3.4 or later. It is easy to use pip to install a new module by using a command...