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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook
Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook: Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Key benefits

  • Strategic recipes for effective application development in Python
  • Techniques to create GUIs and implement security through cryptography
  • Best practices for developing readily scalable, production-ready applications

Description

The Python 3 Standard Library is a vast array of modules that you can use for developing various kinds of applications. It contains an exhaustive list of libraries, and this book will help you choose the best one to address specific programming problems in Python. The Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook begins with recipes on containers and data structures and guides you in performing effective text management in Python. You will find Python recipes for command-line operations, networking, filesystems and directories, and concurrent execution. You will learn about Python security essentials in Python and get to grips with various development tools for debugging, benchmarking, inspection, error reporting, and tracing. The book includes recipes to help you create graphical user interfaces for your application. You will learn to work with multimedia components and perform mathematical operations on date and time. The recipes will also show you how to deploy different searching and sorting algorithms on your data. By the end of the book, you will have acquired the skills needed to write clean code in Python and develop applications that meet your needs.

Who is this book for?

If you are a developer who wants to write highly responsive, manageable, scalable, and resilient code in Python, this book is for you. Prior programming knowledge in Python will help you make the most out of the book.

What you will learn

  • Store multiple values per key in associative containers
  • Create interactive character-based user interfaces
  • Work with native time and display data for your time zone
  • Read/write SGML family languages, both as a SAX and DOM parser to meet file sizes and other requirements
  • Group equivalent items using itertools and sorted features together
  • Use partials to create unary functions out of multi-argument functions
  • Implement hashing algorithms to store passwords in a safe way

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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
Containers and Data Structures Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Text Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Command Line Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Filesystem and Directories Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Date and Time Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Read/Write Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Algorithms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cryptography Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Concurrency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Networking Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Web Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Multimedia Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Graphical User Interfaces Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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gsamn Aug 29, 2019
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Very knowledgeable writer. This book should be twice size or a book set of 3 with more break down. It's a good format
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Jason Crowe Jul 07, 2019
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Great book for realizing the power of the python standard library. Probably not a great choice for beginners.
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Vlad Bezden Apr 17, 2020
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It's a great book. I can only compare this book to "Effective Python: 90 Specific Ways to Write Better Python". I thought I know Python well. Well, after reading this book, I realized that I was mistaken. This book covers the hidden gems of Python standard library. In many cases, I was using third party libraries instead of using just regular standard libraries.This book also follows and teaches the proper Pythonic way of writing code.This book covers Python 3.6, and I wish Alessandro Molina updated this book with new Python libraries.
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Tom Bolt Mar 30, 2019
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There's so much power available in the standard library I had no idea, I really like the idea of using the tools that are delivered before jumping right into another outside module. I enjoy the "recipes" because it conveys the idea and discussion in a somewhat small space so you can pace out the lessons and learn a lot in a small period of time. Not a beginners book however, you should have a good foundation prior to starting this. It presents really well the iPhone and iPad, not so much on Kindle's Web Reader. I think the price is too high for an ebook IMO.
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Jay Nov 29, 2018
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This is a good book by Alessandro Molina. He have used his 15+ years of experience to design and layout all the chapters of the book carefully.The book covers recipes and wide aspects of the language from simple day to day stuffs like containers, data structures, file system, date & time, read &write to some advanced topics like cryptography, concurrency, networking etc.The 300+ pages of the book, is relevant to intermediate to advanced python developers and covers over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python.It have lot of code snippets and all the recipes are explained well. The chapter layouts are designed in a way that make finding a topic easy for the readers.Each recipe have 'How it works' section that gives an insight of how that particular recipe works. Most of the recipes have 'There is more' section as well that dives deep in the topic for curious readers.It enables you to use the powerful features of python's standard library in most effective way.I keep this book on my rack of Effective python (by Brett Slatkin) and Python Cookbook shelf. :)Over all this is a good read.
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