You're reading from Dancing with Python Learn to code with Python and Quantum Computing

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077859

Length 744 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Robert S. Sutor

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Doing the Things That Coders Do

2. Part I: Getting to Know Python FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Expressions

4. Chapter 3: Collecting Things Together

5. Chapter 4: Stringing You Along

6. Chapter 5: Computing and Calculating

7. Chapter 6: Defining and Using Functions

8. Chapter 7: Organizing Objects into Classes

9. Chapter 8: Working with Files

10. PART II: Algorithms and Circuits

11. Chapter 9: Understanding Gates and Circuits

12. Chapter 10: Optimizing and Testing Your Code

13. Chapter 11: Searching for the Quantum Improvement

14. PART III: Advanced Features and Libraries

15. Chapter 12: Searching and Changing Text

16. Chapter 13: Creating Plots and Charts

17. Chapter 14: Analyzing Data

18. Chapter 15: Learning, Briefly

19. References

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Appendices

1. Appendix A: Tools

2. Appendix B: Staying Current

3. Appendix C: The Complete UniPoly Class

4. Appendix D: The Complete Guitar Class Hierarchy

5. Appendix E: Notices

6. Appendix F: Production Notes

5.1 Using Python modules

So far, all the code we have seen or used has been built into Python, or we wrote it ourselves. Python uses modules to collect together function, class, and constant definitions so that you can reuse them by selectively bringing them into your environment. We can group modules in a hierarchical, tree-like structure to create packages. Together, these provide the functionality of libraries that we saw in section 1.4.

5.1.1 How do you get a module?

More than 200 modules come with the Python Standard Library. [PYL] Other than loading them into your environment via import, you don’t need to install anything extra to use them. The math, fractions, random, and cmath modules we use in this chapter are part of the standard library.

That’s not the full extent of pre-written code you can use. More than 200,000 modules are available from the Python Package Index. [PYPI]

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