Programming in Python 3 : A Complete Introduction to the Python Language

Programming in Python 3 : A Complete Introduction to the Python Language

Book Title: Programming in Python 3 : A Complete Introduction to the Python Language

Author: Doug Hellmann

Format: Paperback | 656 pages

Publication Date: 15 Dec 2009

ISBN-13: 9780321680563



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
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
Building usable, efficient, GUI-based applications

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.