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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures 2. Text Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

When writing software, you need tools that make achieving your goal easier and tools that help you to manage the complexity of the code base, which can get millions of line of code and can involve other people's code that you are not experienced with.

Even for small projects, if you are involving third-party libraries, frameworks, and tools, you are, in fact, bringing other people's code into yours and you will need a set of tools to understand what's going on when you rely on this code and to keep your own code under control and free from bugs.

Here is where techniques such as testing, debugging, profiling, and tracing can come in handy to verify the code base, understand what's going on, spot bottlenecks, and see what was executed and when.

The Python standard library comes with many of the tools you will need during daily development to implement...

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