Learning Python Application Development: Take Python beyond scripting to build robust, reusable, and efficient applications

Ninad Sathaye

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eBook Sep 2016 454 pages 1st Edition

Ninad Sathaye

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eBook Sep 2016 454 pages 1st Edition

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Get to grips with Python techniques that address commonly encountered problems in general application development.
Develop, package, and deploy efficient applications in a fun way.
All-practical coverage of the major areas of application development, including best practices, exception handling, testing, refactoring, design patterns, performance, and GUI application development.

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Python is one of the most widely used dynamic programming languages, supported by a rich set of libraries and frameworks that enable rapid development. But fast paced development often comes with its own baggage that could bring down the quality, performance, and extensibility of an application. This book will show you ways to handle such problems and write better Python applications. From the basics of simple command-line applications, develop your skills all the way to designing efficient and advanced Python apps. Guided by a light-hearted fantasy learning theme, overcome the real-world problems of complex Python development with practical solutions. Beginning with a focus on robustness, packaging, and releasing application code, you’ll move on to focus on improving application lifetime by making code extensible, reusable, and readable. Get to grips with Python refactoring, design patterns and best practices. Techniques to identify the bottlenecks and improve performance are covered in a series of chapters devoted to performance, before closing with a look at developing Python GUIs.

Who is this book for?

Do you know the basics of Python and object oriented programming? Do you want to go an extra mile and learn techniques to make your Python application robust, extensible, and efficient? Then this book is for you.

What you will learn

Build a robust application by handling exceptions.
Modularize, package, and release the source distribution.
Document the code and implement coding standards.
Create automated tests to catch bugs in the early development stage.
Identify and re-factor badly written code to improve application life.
Detect recurring problems in the code and apply design patterns.
Improve code efficiency by identifying performance bottlenecks and fixing them.
Develop simple GUI applications using Python.

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Will Ware Oct 13, 2016

Disclosure: I am the technical reviewer for this book and I received a complimentary copy from the author. That said, I'm delighted with the book, and to have in some small way contributed to its excellence. While the fantasy game theme might suggest this is a book for beginners, it is densely packed with resources that will serve the needs of advanced Python developers. After two chapters of basics, Ninad moves on to creating and distributing packages, code documentation and quality monitoring, unit testing and mocking, refactoring, measuring and improving performance, and GUI programming. Each topic is a deep dive, examining multiple approaches and making informed recommendations, far beyond the casual web searching that software developers (myself included) routinely do in our haste to accomplish specific goals. I look forward to using the book in my daily work and plan to recommend it to friends and co-workers. After ten-plus years of professional Python development, I fully expect that working with this book will improve the quality of my output.

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Qi Feb 11, 2019

I bought the Chinese translation version of this book a year ago and read less than 2 chapters after I bought it. I started to read it again since yesterday and spent a day and finished 6 chapters and found it’s very helpful for me to better understand not only python as a language but also many aspects for software development. Many concepts were introduced in a simple way and easily connected with actual corresponding code.

Learning Python Application Development: Take Python beyond scripting to build robust, reusable, and efficient applications

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