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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Reactive Programming with Python Event-driven development unraveled with RxPY

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138726
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to Reactive Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Asynchronous Programming in Python 3. Functional Programming with ReactiveX 4. Exploring Observables and Observers 5. Concurrency and Parallelism in RxPY 6. Implementation of an Audio Transcoding Server 7. Using Third-Party Services 8. Dynamic Reconfiguration and Error Management 9. Operators in RxPY 10. Testing and Debugging 11. Deploying and Scaling Your Application 12. Reactive Streams for Remote Communication 13. A Checklist of Best Practices 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  • Why is asynchronous programming more efficient than multiple processes/threads to handle I/O concurrency?
  • Why is asynchronous programming not a solution to improve the performance of CPU-bound tasks?
  • What is the reason why multithreading is not performing as well in Python as in other programming languages?
  • What is the benefit of a generator compared to an iterator?
  • Why does a generator help in writing asynchronous code?
  • What is the difference between calling the next function and calling the send method of a generator object?
  • How is a coroutine declared?
  • How can a coroutine call another coroutine?
  • What is the role of the event loop?
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