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Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition - Third Edition

By : Fabrizio Romano, Heinrich Kruger
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Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition - Third Edition

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By: Fabrizio Romano, Heinrich Kruger

Overview of this book

Learn Python Programming, Third Edition is both a theoretical and practical introduction to Python, an extremely flexible and powerful programming language that can be applied to many disciplines. This book will make learning Python easy and give you a thorough understanding of the language. You'll learn how to write programs, build modern APIs, and work with data by using renowned Python data science libraries. This revised edition covers the latest updates on API management, packaging applications, and testing. There is also broader coverage of context managers and an updated data science chapter. The book empowers you to take ownership of writing your software and become independent in fetching the resources you need. You will have a clear idea of where to go and how to build on what you have learned from the book. Through examples, the book explores a wide range of applications and concludes by building real-world Python projects based on the concepts you have learned.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we've taken another step toward expanding our Python vocabulary. We've seen how to drive the execution of code by evaluating conditions, along with how to loop and iterate over sequences and collections of objects. This gives us the power to control what happens when our code is run, which means we are getting an idea of how to shape it so that it does what we want, having it react to data that changes dynamically.

We've also seen how to combine everything together in a couple of simple examples, and in the end, we took a brief look at the itertools module, which is full of interesting iterators that can enrich our abilities with Python to a greater degree.

Now it's time to switch gears, take another step forward, and talk about functions. The next chapter is all about them, and they are extremely important. Make sure you're comfortable with what has been covered up to now. We want to provide you with interesting...