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Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé
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Book Image

Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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By: Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé

Overview of this book

This new edition of Expert Python Programming provides you with a thorough understanding of the process of building and maintaining Python apps. Complete with best practices, useful tools, and standards implemented by professional Python developers, this fourth edition has been extensively updated. Throughout this book, you’ll get acquainted with the latest Python improvements, syntax elements, and interesting tools to boost your development efficiency. The initial few chapters will allow experienced programmers coming from different languages to transition to the Python ecosystem. You will explore common software design patterns and various programming methodologies, such as event-driven programming, concurrency, and metaprogramming. You will also go through complex code examples and try to solve meaningful problems by bridging Python with C and C++, writing extensions that benefit from the strengths of multiple languages. Finally, you will understand the complete lifetime of any application after it goes live, including packaging and testing automation. By the end of this book, you will have gained actionable Python programming insights that will help you effectively solve challenging problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Modern Python Development Environments

A deep understanding of the programming language of choice is the most important part of being a programming expert. Still, it is really hard to develop good software efficiently without knowing the best tools and practices that are common within the given language community. Python has no single feature that cannot be found in some other language. So, when comparing the syntax, expressiveness, or performance, there will always be a solution that is better in one or more fields. But the area in which Python really stands out from the crowd is the whole ecosystem built around the language. The Python community has spent many years polishing standard practices and libraries that help to create high-quality software in a shorter time.

Writing new software is always an expensive and time-consuming process. However, being able to reuse existing code instead of reinventing the wheel greatly reduces development times and costs. For some...