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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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Summary

This chapter was all about development environments for Python programmers. We've discussed the importance of environment isolation for Python projects. You've learned two different levels of environment isolation (application-level and system-level), and multiple tools that allow you to create them in a consistent and repeatable manner. We've also discussed some essential topics for managing Python dependencies in your projects. This chapter ended with a review of a few tools that improve the ways in which you can experiment with Python or debug your programs and work effectively.

Once you have all of these tools in your tool belt, you are well-prepared for the next few chapters, where we will discuss multiple features of modern Python syntax. You're probably already hungry for Python code so we will start with a quick overview of the new things that were included in Python over the last few releases.

If you're quite up to date with what&apos...