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Programming Python, Fourth Edition: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming—New from O’Reilly
Press release: January 13, 2011
Sebastopol, CA—If you’ve mastered Python’s fundamentals, you’re ready to start using it to get real work done. Programming Python (O’Reilly Media, $64.99 USD) will show you how, with in-depth tutorials on the language’s primary application domains: system administration, GUIs, and the Web. You’ll also explore how Python is used in databases, networking, front-end scripting layers, text processing, and more. This book focuses on commonly used tools and libraries to give you a comprehensive understanding of Python’s many roles in practical, real-world programming.
«Given that Python 3.X is expected to be the future of Python—or, at the very least, a major part of it—an in-depth applications programming book that uses Python 3.X exclusively should serve as a resource for both new Python users who start off with Python 3.X initially, as well as current Python 2.X users migrating to 3.X over time,» says author Mark Lutz.
«Python 3.X will probably eventually matter to everyone using Python, even if it’s just as a candidate being evaluated for viability,» Lutz adds. «By showing Python 3.X put to work on realistic tasks, this book will help readers judge its merits, and perhaps apply it for tasks of their own.»
You’ll learn language syntax and programming techniques in a clear and concise manner, with lots of examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms. Completely updated for version 3.x, Programming Python also delves into the language as a software development tool, with many code examples scaled specifically for that purpose.
- Quick Python tour: Build a simple demo that includes data representation, object-oriented programming, object persistence, GUIs, and website basics
- System programming: Explore system interface tools and techniques for command-line scripting, processing files and folders, running programs in parallel, and more
- GUI programming: Learn to use Python’s tkinter widget library
- Internet programming: Access client-side network protocols and email tools, use CGI scripts, and learn website implementation techniques
- More ways to apply Python: Implement data structures, parse text-based information, interface with databases, and extend and embed Python
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Mark Lutz is the world leader in Python training, the author of Python’s earliest and best-selling texts, and a pioneering figure in the Python community since 1992. He has been a software developer for 25 years, and is the author of O’Reilly’s Programming Python, 3rd Edition and Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition.
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Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language, Second Edition
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A Fully Revised Edition Featuring New Material on Coroutines, Debugging, Testing, Parsing, String Formatting, and More
Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3’s features and idioms. Programming in Python 3, Second Edition, brings together all the knowledge you need to write any program, use any standard or third-party Python 3 library, and create new library modules of your own.
Summerfield draws on his many years of Python experience to share deep insights into Python 3 development you won’t find anywhere else. He begins by illuminating Python’s “beautiful heart”: the eight key elements of Python you need to write robust, high-performance programs. Building on these core elements, he introduces new topics designed to strengthen your practical expertise–one concept and hands-on example at a time. Coverage includes
- Developing in Python using procedural, objectoriented, and functional programming paradigms
- Creating custom packages and modules
- Writing and reading binary, text, and XML files, including optional compression, random access, and text and XML parsing
- Leveraging advanced data types, collections, control structures, and functions
- Spreading program workloads across multiple processes and threads
- Programming SQL databases and key—value DBM files
- Debugging techniques–and using Test Driven Development to avoid bugs in the first place
- Utilizing Python’s regular expression mini-language and module
- Parsing techniques, including how to use the third-party PyParsing and PLY modules
- Building usable, efficient, GUI-based applications
- Advanced programming techniques, including generators, function and class decorators, context managers, descriptors, abstract base classes, metaclasses, coroutines, and more
Programming in Python 3, Second Edition, serves as both tutorial and language reference. It assumes some prior programming experience, and it is accompanied by extensive downloadable example code–all of it tested with Python 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.