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Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition

You're reading from Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition Master Python by learning the best coding practices and advanced programming concepts

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071109

Length 630 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (3):

Michał Jaworski

Tarek Ziade

Tarek Ziadé

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Current Status of Python

2. Modern Python Development Environments

3. New Things in Python

4. Python in Comparison with Other Languages

5. Interfaces, Patterns, and Modularity FREE CHAPTER

6. Concurrency

7. Event-Driven Programming

8. Elements of Metaprogramming

9. Bridging Python with C and C++

10. Testing and Quality Automation

11. Packaging and Distributing Python Code

12. Observing Application Behavior and Performance

13. Code Optimization

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

15. Index

Where are we now and where are we going?

Python isn't a young language. Its history starts somewhere in the late 1980s and the official 1.0 release happened in year 1994. We could discuss the whole timeline of major Python releases mentioned here, but we really only need to be concerned about a few dates:

October 16, 2000: official release of Python 2.0
December 3, 2008: official release of Python 3.0
November 9, 2011: announcement of Python 2.8 release un-schedule
January 1, 2020: official sunsetting of Python 2

So, at the time of writing, Python 3 is almost half as old as Python itself. It has also been active for longer than Python 2 was when it comes to active development of new language features.

Although Python 3 has been around for quite some time, its adoption was so slow that the initial end of life for Python 2 was postponed by 5 years. It was mostly due to a lot of backward compatibility issues that didn't always allow...

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Authors (3)

Tarek Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé is a Software Engineer, located in Burgundy, France. He works at Elastic, building tools for developers. Before Elastic, he worked at Mozilla for 10 years. Tarek founded a French Python User group called Afpy. He has written several articles on the Python programming language for various magazines and also a few books in French and English.

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Michał Jaworski

Michał Jaworski

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Ziadé

Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé is a Software Engineer, located in Burgundy, France. He works at Elastic, building tools for developers. Before Elastic, he worked at Mozilla for 10 years. Tarek founded a French Python User group called Afpy. He has written several articles on the Python programming language for various magazines and also a few books in French and English.

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