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Modern Python Solutions Part 1 [Video]

By : Steven F. Lott
Book Image

Modern Python Solutions Part 1 [Video]

By: Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

<p>Python is the preferred choice of developers, engineers, data scientists, and hobbyists everywhere. It is a great scripting language that can power your applications and provide great speed, safety, and scalability. By exposing Python as a series of simple recipes, you can gain insight into specific language features in a particular context. Having a tangible context helps make the language or standard library feature easier to understand.This video comes with over 100 recipes on the latest version of Python. The recipes will benefit everyone ranging from beginner to an expert. The video is broken down into 13 sections that build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language.The recipes will touch upon all the necessary Python concepts related to data structures, OOP, functional programming, as well as statistical programming. You will get acquainted with the nuances of Python syntax and how to effectively use the advantages that it offers. You will end the book equipped with the knowledge of testing, web services, and configuration and application integration tips and tricks.The recipes take a problem-solution approach to resolve issues commonly faced by Python programmers across the globe. You will be armed with the knowledge of creating applications with flexible logging, powerful configuration, and command-line options, automated unit tests, and good documentation.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>This video takes a recipe-based approach, where each recipe addresses specific problems and issues. The recipes provide discussions and insights and an explanation of the problems.</p>
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 4
Built-in Data Structures – List, Sets, and Dict
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Section 14
Avoiding Mutable Default Values for Function Parameters
This section will provide an overview of the various structures that are available and what problems they solve. From there, you can look at lists, dictionaries, and sets in detail, and also look at some more advanced topics related to how Python handles references to objects.