Python Cookbook: Recipes for Mastering Python 3

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", May 10, 2013 - Computers - 706 pages

If you need help writing programs in Python 3, or want to update older Python 2 code, this book is just the ticket. Packed with practical recipes written and tested with Python 3.3, this unique cookbook is for experienced Python programmers who want to focus on modern tools and idioms.

Inside, youâ??ll find complete recipes for more than a dozen topics, covering the core Python language as well as tasks common to a wide variety of application domains. Each recipe contains code samples you can use in your projects right away, along with a discussion about how and why the solution works.

Topics include:

  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Strings and Text
  • Numbers, Dates, and Times
  • Iterators and Generators
  • Files and I/O
  • Data Encoding and Processing
  • Functions
  • Classes and Objects
  • Metaprogramming
  • Modules and Packages
  • Network and Web Programming
  • Concurrency
  • Utility Scripting and System Administration
  • Testing, Debugging, and Exceptions
  • C Extensions
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Data Structures and Algorithms
1
Chapter 2 Strings and Text
37
Chapter 3 Numbers Dates and Times
83
Chapter 4 Iterators and Generators
113
Chapter 5 Files and IO
141
Chapter 6 Data Encoding and Processing
175
Chapter 7 Functions
217
Chapter 8 Classes and Objects
243
Chapter 11 Network and Web Programming
437
Chapter 12 Concurrency
485
Chapter 13 Utility Scripting and System Administration
539
Chapter 14 Testing Debugging and Exceptions
565
Chapter 15 C Extensions
597
Appendix A Further Reading
665
Index
667
About the Authors
688

Chapter 9 Metaprogramming
329
Chapter 10 Modules and Packages
397

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About the author (2013)

David Beazley is an independent software developer and book author living in the city of Chicago. He primarily works on programming tools, provide custom software development, and teach practical programming courses for software developers, scientists, and engineers. He is best known for his work with the Python programming language, for which he has created several open-source packages (e.g., Swig and PLY) and authored the acclaimed Python Essential Reference. He also has significant experience with systems programming in C, C++, and assembly language. Brian K. Jones is a system administrator in the department of computer science at Princeton University.

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