Supercharged Python Take Your Code to the Next Level

by Overland, Brian; Bennett, John

• ISBN13: 9780135159941
• ISBN10: 0135159946
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780135160244, 9780135160794
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-07-08
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Summary

If you’re ready to write better Python code and use more advanced features, Advanced Python Programming was written for you. Brian Overland and John Bennett distill advanced topics down to their essentials, illustrating them with simple examples and practical exercises. 

Building on Overland’s widely-praised approach in Python Without Fear, the authors start with short, simple examples designed for easy entry, and quickly ramp you up to creating useful utilities and games, and using Python to solve interesting puzzles. Everything you’ll need to know is patiently explained and clearly illustrated, and the authors illuminate the design decisions and tricks behind each language feature they cover. You’ll gain the in-depth understanding to successfully apply all these advanced features and techniques: 

• Coding for runtime efficiency
• Lambda functions (and when to use them)
• Managing versioning 
• Localization and Unicode
• Regular expressions
• Binary operators 
• Radix conversions 
• Data formatting, in depth
• Creating, building, and importing packages
• Using the Django web-development package
• Graphics programming
• Magic methods and advanced object orientation
• Reading and writing binary files, and more

Author Biography

Brian Overland is a textbook author, sometime actor, programmer, film reviewer, and novelist. He has been professionally programming with the C family of languages since the early 1980s and spent 10 years at Microsoft, first as a software tester and then as programmer/writer, manager, and project lead. Almost unique among programmers, he is an award-winning writer deeply committed to teaching and simplifying advanced concepts. You can read his comments on technology, reviews, and his upcoming book projects at brianoverland.com.

Table of Contents

1. Review of Python Fundamentals

2. Version Issues: Python 2.0 vs. 3.0

3. Advanced Python Operators

4. Efficient Programming Practices

5. Complete Guide to Formatting

6. Regular Expressions

7. Lambda Functions and List Processing

8. File I/O Using Text and Binary

9. Review of Python Objects and Classes

10. More About Magic Methods

11. Importing, Using and Creating Packages

12. Web Development with Django

13. Unicode and Related Issues

14. Using Tkinter to Animate Figures

15. Python Meta-Classes

Appendices

Python Reference Guide