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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788830829

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Alessandro Molina

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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Multimedia

In this chapter, we will cover following recipes:

Determining the type of a file—how to guess the type of a file
Detecting an image type—inspecting an image to understand what type of image it is
Detecting an image size—inspecting an image to retrieve its size
Playing audio/video/images—playing audio, video, or showing images on desktop systems

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Authors (1)

Molina

Molina

Alessandro Molina has been a Python developer since 2001, and has always been interested in Python as a web development platform. He has worked as a CTO and a team leader of Python teams for the past 10 years and is currently the core developer of the TurboGears2 web framework and the maintainer of the Beaker caching/session framework. He authored the DEPOT file storage framework and the DukPy JavaScript interpreter for Python and has collaborated on various Python projects related to web development, such as FormEncode, ToscaWidgets, and the Ming MongoDB ORM.

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