Dead Simple Python Idiomatic Python for the Impatient Programmer

by McDonald, Jason C

• ISBN13: 9781718500921
• ISBN10: 1718500920
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-11-22
• Publisher: No Starch Press

Summary

The complete core language for existing programmers.

Dead Simple Python is a thorough introduction to every feature of the Python language for programmers who are impatient to write production code. Instead of revisiting elementary computer science topics, you’ll dive deep into idiomatic Python patterns so you can write professional Python programs in no time.
 
After speeding through Python’s basic syntax and setting up a complete programming environment, you’ll learn to work with Python’s dynamic data typing, its support for both functional and object-oriented programming techniques, special features like generator expressions, and advanced topics like concurrency. You’ll also learn how to package, distribute, debug, and test your Python project.
 
Master how to:

Make Python's dynamic typing work for you to produce cleaner, more adaptive code.

Harness advanced iteration techniques to structure and process your data.

Design classes and functions that work without unwanted surprises or arbitrary constraints.

Use multiple inheritance and introspection to write classes that work intuitively.

Improve your code's responsiveness and performance with asynchrony, concurrency, and parallelism.

Structure your Python project for production-grade testing and distribution

 
The most pedantically pythonic primer ever printed, Dead Simple Python will take you from working with the absolute basics to coding applications worthy of publication.

Author Biography

Jason C. McDonald is a software developer, speaker, and author of both fiction and non-fiction. He's the founder of MousePaw Media (https://mousepawmedia.com), an open source software company, where he trains software development interns. You can usually find him haunting his local coffee shop.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: The Python Environment
Chapter 1: The Python Philosophy
Chapter 2: Your Workbench
Chapter 3: Syntax Crash Course
Chapter 4: Project Structure & Imports
Part 2: Essential Structures
Chapter 5: Data Typing and Immutability
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Objects
Chapter 8: Errors
Part 3: Data and Flow
Chapter 9: Loops and Iterators
Chapter 10: Generators, Comprehensions & Coroutines
Chapter 11: Text Files and Contexts
Chapter 12: Binary and Serialization
Part 4: Advanced Concepts
Chapter 13: Class Inheritance
Chapter 14: Inspection and Generics
Chapter 15: Concurrency and Asynchrony
Chapter 16: Threading and Parallelism
Part 5: Beyond the Code
Chapter 17: Packaging and Distribution
Chapter 18: Debugging and Analysis
Chapter 19: Testing and Profiling
Chapter 20: Parting of Ways
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