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Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition

You're reading from Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition An in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815093

Length 554 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

FastAPI

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Heinrich Kruger

Fabrizio Romano

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. A Gentle Introduction to Python

2. Built-In Data Types FREE CHAPTER

3. Conditionals and Iteration

4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code

5. Comprehensions and Generators

6. OOP, Decorators, and Iterators

7. Exceptions and Context Managers

8. Files and Data Persistence

9. Cryptography and Tokens

10. Testing

11. Debugging and Profiling

12. GUIs and Scripting

13. Data Science in Brief

14. Introduction to API Development

15. Packaging Python Applications

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Where do we go from here?

Hopefully, by now, you should have wrapped your head around API design. Of course, you will have to check out the source code and spend some time on it, in order to deepen your understanding of this topic. Make sure you experiment, change things, break them, and see what happens. Here are some suggestions for you if you want to learn more on the subject:

Learn FastAPI. The website offers a great tutorial for beginners and one for advanced programmers, which we recommend. It will cover all the details and the reasons why things have to be done in a certain way, which we couldn't cover in this chapter.
Experiment with the source code for this chapter. We have written it as simply as we could, so there is lots of room for optimization.
Learn about WSGI—Web Server Gateway Interface—(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Server_Gateway_Interface) and, if you are familiar with asynchronous programming, aWSGI, its asynchronous...

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Authors (2)

Romano

Romano

Fabrizio Romano was born in Italy in 1975. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Padova. He's been working as a professional software developer since 1999. Fabrizio has been part of Sohonet's Product Team since 2016. In 2020, the Television Academy honored them with an Emmy Award in Engineering Development for advancing remote collaboration.

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Kruger

Kruger

Heinrich Kruger was born in South Africa in 1981. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has been working as a professional software developer since 2014. Heinrich has been working alongside Fabrizio in the Product Team at Sohonet since 2017. In 2020, the Television Academy honored them with an Emmy Award in Engineering Development for advancing remote collaboration.

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