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You're reading from The Python Apprentice Introduction to the Python Programming Language

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788293181

Length 352 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Austin Bingham

Robert Smallshire

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting started FREE CHAPTER

2. Strings and Collections

3. Modularity

4. Built-in types and the object model

5. Exploring Built-in Collection types

6. Exceptions

7. Comprehensions, iterables, and generators

8. Defining new types with classes

9. Files and Resource Management

10. Unit testing with the Python standard library

11. Debugging with PDB

12. Afterword – Just the Beginning

13. Virtual Environments

14. Packaging and Distribution

15. Installing Third-Party Packages

Moment of zen

Moment of zen: In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess:

Figure 10.1: Moment of Zen

The temptation to guess, or to ignore ambiguity with wishful thinking, can lead to short term gains. But it can often lead to confusion in the future, and to bugs which are difficult to understand and fix. Before you make that next quick fix, ask yourself what information you need to do it correctly.

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Authors (2)

Austin Bingham

Austin Bingham is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an experienced presenter and teacher, having spoken at numerous conferences, software groups, and internal corporate venues. Austin is also an active member of the open source community, contributing regularly to various Python and Emacs projects, and he's the founder of Stavanger Software Developers, one of the largest and most active social software groups in Stavanger. Austin holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Robert Smallshire

Robert Smallshire is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting and training business in Norway providing services throughout Europe, and which uses Python extensively. Robert has worked in senior architecture and technical management roles for several software companies providing tools in the energy sector. He has dealt with understanding, designing, advocating and implementing effective architectures for sophisticated scientific and enterprise software in Python, C++, C# and F# and Javascript. Robert is a regular speaker at conferences, meetups and corporate software events and can be found speaking about topics as diverse as behavioural microeconomics in software development to implementing web services on 8-bit microcontrollers. He is organiser of the Oslo Python group and holds a Ph.D. in a natural science.

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