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The Python Workshop Second Edition

You're reading from   The Python Workshop Second Edition Write Python code to solve challenging real-world problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610619
Length 600 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (5):
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Mario Corchero Jiménez Mario Corchero Jiménez
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Mario Corchero Jiménez
Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird
Corey Wade Corey Wade
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Corey Wade
Graham Lee Graham Lee
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Graham Lee
Dr. Lau Cher Han Dr. Lau Cher Han
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Python Fundamentals – Math, Strings, Conditionals, and Loops 2. Chapter 2: Python Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Executing Python – Programs, Algorithms, and Functions 4. Chapter 4: Extending Python, Files, Errors, and Graphs 5. Chapter 5: Constructing Python – Classes and Methods 6. Chapter 6: The Standard Library 7. Chapter 7: Becoming Pythonic 8. Chapter 8: Software Development 9. Chapter 9: Practical Python – Advanced Topics 10. Chapter 10: Data Analytics with pandas and NumPy 11. Chapter 11: Machine Learning 12. Chapter 12: Deep Learning with Python 13. Chapter 13: The Evolution of Python – Discovering New Python Features 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you have seen that software development is more than just writing code in Python. When you want to elevate your code further than a simple script on your computer, you need to know how to troubleshoot, distribute, document, and test it. The Python ecosystem provides you with tools to do all of these things. You have learned how to troubleshoot code using pdb and have followed steps on how to identify and narrow down a problem by inspecting logs and the input. You have also learned how to write automated tests and about the importance of these.

You saw how you can package your code to be distributed across the internet, how you can also document those packages to make them easier to use and consume by your final users, and, finally, how to use Git to manage changes as your code evolves.

In the next chapter, we will touch on some more advanced topics; some of them build on top of what you just learned. You will explore things such as how to take the code...

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