Developer's Library: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language

Mark Summerfield

ISBN 10: 0137129297 / ISBN 13: 9780137129294

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008

Spuren von Feuchtigkeit / Nässe; Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke; Gebrochener Buchrücken. This edition has been superseded by the second edition, which includes corrections and new chapters, making it a better value at a similar price. The first edition covers Python 3.0, while the second edition addresses both Python 3.0 and 3.1, clearly marking the differences. Note that Python's developers recommend 3.1 as the minimum version, as 3.0 will not receive security fixes. Due to the language moratorium, Python 3.1 will remain unchanged in 3.2, which will include bug fixes and library improvements. This makes the second edition relevant for Python 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. Python 3 is the most powerful and expressive version of the language to date. Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to leverage Python 3's features and idioms effectively. As the first book written entirely from a "Python 3" perspective, it consolidates essential knowledge for writing programs, utilizing standard or third-party libraries, and creating new library modules. Summerfield shares valuable insights from his extensive Python experience, offering a comprehensive tutorial and language reference. The examples are tested on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and are available for download from the author's website. Seller Inventory # df331d94-e94b-408e-911a-f9899ef50776

Synopsis:

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. The first book written from a completely “Python 3” viewpoint, Programming in Python 3 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. This book’s coverage includes

 

• Developing in Python using procedural, object-oriented, 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
• Utilizing Python’s regular expression mini-language and module
• Building usable, efficient, GUI-based applications
• Advanced programming techniques, including generators, function and class decorators, context managers, descriptors, abstract base classes, metaclasses, and more

 

Programming in Python 3serves as both tutorial and language reference, and it is accompanied by extensive downloadable example code–all of it tested with the final version of Python 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

About the Author:

Mark Summerfield, owner of Qtrac Ltd., is an independent trainer, consultant, technical editor, and writer specializing in Python, C++, Qt, and PyQt. His books include Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2008) and, cowritten with Jasmin Blanchette, C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (Addison-Wesley, 2006). As Trolltech’s documentation manager, Mark founded and edited Trolltech’s technical journal, Qt Quarterly.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Developer's Library: Programming in Python 3...
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Fair