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Modern Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Cookbook The latest in modern Python recipes for the busy modern programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469250
Length 692 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples 2. Statements and Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Function Definitions 4. Built-in Data Structures – list, set, dict 5. User Inputs and Outputs 6. Basics of Classes and Objects 7. More Advanced Class Design 8. Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout 9. Testing 10. Web Services 11. Application Integration

Statements and Syntax

In this chapter we'll look at the following recipes:

  • Writing python script and module files
  • Writing long lines of code
  • Including descriptions and documentation
  • Better RST markup in docstrings
  • Designing complex if...elif chains
  • Designing a while statement which terminates
  • Avoiding a potential problem with break statements
  • Leveraging the exception matching rules
  • Avoiding a potential problem with an except: clause
  • Chaining exceptions with the raise from statement
  • Managing a context using the with statement
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Modern Python Cookbook
Published in: Nov 2016
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781786469250
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