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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

Introduction

Python's extensible library gives us rich access to numerous computing resources. This makes Python programs particularly strong at integrating components to create sophisticated composite processing.

In the Using argparse to get command line input, Using cmd for creating command-line applications, and Using the OS environment settings recipes in Chapter 5, User Inputs and Outputs, specific techniques for creating top-level (main) application scripts were shown. In Chapter 8, Input/Output, Physical Format, Logical Layout, we looked at file-system input and output. In Chapter 10, Web Services, we looked at creating servers, which are main applications that receive requests from clients.

All of these examples show some aspects of application programming in Python. There are some additional techniques that are helpful:

  • Processing configuration from files....
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