Ready to master Python? In this updated edition of the prize-winning Python reference, learn to write effective code, whether you're a beginner or a professional programmer. Review core Python concepts, including functions, modularization, and object orientation, and walk through the available data types. Then dive into more advanced topics, such as exception handling, static type checking, and regular expressions. With mountains of code examples throughout, this hands-on reference guide has everything you need to become proficient in Python!
Highlights includes:
1) Functions
2) Methods
3) Attributes
4) Data types
5) GUIs
6) Debugging
7) Network communication
8) Modularization
9) Object orientation
10) Iterators
11) Generators
12) Exception handling
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Table of contents
- Notes on Usage
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Python Programming Language
- Part I Getting Started with Python
- 3 Getting Started with the Interactive Mode
- 4 The Path to the First Program
- 5 Control Structures
- 6 Files
- 7 The Data Model
- 8 Functions, Methods, and Attributes
- 9 Sources of Information on Python
- Part II Data Types
- 10 Basic Data Types: An Overview
- 11 Numeric Data Types
- 12 Sequential Data Types
- 13 Mappings and Sets
- 14 Collections
- 15 Date and Time
- 16 Enumerations and Flags
- Part III Advanced Programming Techniques
- 17 Functions
- 18 Modules and Packages
- 19 Object-Oriented Programming
- 20 Exception Handling
- 21 Generators and Iterators
- 22 Context Manager
- 23 Decorators
- 24 Annotations for Static Type Checking
- 25 Structural Pattern Matching
- Part IV The Standard Library
- 26 Mathematics
- 27 Screen Outputs and Logging
- 28 Regular Expressions
- 29 Interface to Operating System and Runtime Environment
- 30 File System
- 31 Parallel Programming
- 32 Data Storage
- 33 Network Communication
- 34 Accessing Resources on the Internet
- 35 Email
- 36 Debugging and Quality Assurance
- 37 Documentation
- Part V Advanced Topics
- 38 Distributing Python Projects
- 39 Virtual Environments
- 40 Alternative Interpreters and Compilers
- 41 Graphical User Interfaces
- 42 Python as a Server-Side Programming Language on the Web: An Introduction to Django
- 43 Scientific Computing and Data Science
- 44 Inside Knowledge
- 45 A History of Python Versions
- A Appendix
- B The Authors
- Index
- Service Pages
- Legal Notes
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