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The Python Apprentice

You're reading from   The Python Apprentice Introduction to the Python Programming Language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293181
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Austin Bingham Austin Bingham
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Robert Smallshire Robert Smallshire
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting started FREE CHAPTER 2. Strings and Collections 3. Modularity 4. Built-in types and the object model 5. Exploring Built-in Collection types 6. Exceptions 7. Comprehensions, iterables, and generators 8. Defining new types with classes 9. Files and Resource Management 10. Unit testing with the Python standard library 11. Debugging with PDB 12. Afterword – Just the Beginning
13. Virtual Environments 14. Packaging and Distribution 15. Installing Third-Party Packages

Afterword – Just the Beginning

As we said at the beginning, Python is a big language. Our goal with this book is get you started in the right direction, to give you the foundation you need to not just program Python effectively but direct your own growth with the language. Hopefully, we've done our job!

We encourage you to use what you've learned here whenever you can. Practicing these skills really is the only way to master them, and we're sure that your appreciation for Python will deepen as you put the language to use. Perhaps you can use Python immediately in your job or school work, but if not there are countless open-source projects that would love to have your help. Or you could start your own project! There are so many ways to get experience with Python that the real problem may be finding the one that...

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