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Daniel Arbuckle???s Mastering Python

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787283695

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Python Primer FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up

3. Making a Package

4. Basic Best Practices

5. Making a Command-Line Utility

6. Parallel Processing

7. Coroutines and Asynchronous I/O

8. Metaprogramming

9. Unit Testing

10. Reactive Programming

11. Microservices

12. Extension Modules and Compiled Code

Python Primer

In this chapter, we will be covering the basic syntax of Python, its built-in data structures, functions, classes, its standard library, and the new features in the latest versions of Python. If you need to get up to speed on the language, this is where we'll do that. We'll walk through, step by step, covering the following topics:

Python basic syntax and block structure
Built-in data structures and comprehensions
First-class functions and classes
Extensive standard library
What's new in Python

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Authors (1)

Daniel Arbuckle

Daniel Arbuckle

Daniel Arbuckle gained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He has published numerous papers along with several books and video courses, and he is both a teacher of computer science and a professional programmer.

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