Alex Martelli

Paul McGuire

Steve Holden

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft

Python was recently ranked as today's most popular programming language on the TIOBE index, thanks to its broad applicability to design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance. With this updated fourth edition, you'll learn how to get the most out of Python, whether you're a professional programmer or someone who needs this language to solve problems in a particular field. Carefully curated by recognized experts in Python, this new edition focuses on version 3.10, bringing this seminal work on the Python language fully up to date on five version releases, including preview coverage of upcoming 3.11 features. This handy guide will help you: Learn how Python represents data and program as objects Understand the value and uses of type annotations Examine which language features appeared in which recent versions Discover how to use modern Python idiomatically Learn ways to structure Python projects appropriately Understand how to debug Python code

Python in a Nutshell

Anna Ravenscroft

Useful in many roles, from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance, Python is consistently ranked among today's most popular programming languages. The third edition of this practical book provides a quick reference to the language-including Python 3.5, 2.7, and highlights of 3.6-commonly used areas of its vast standard library, and some of the most useful third-party modules and packages. Ideal for programmers with some Python experience, and those coming to Python from other programming languages, this book covers a wide range of application areas, including web and network programming, XML handling, database interactions, and high-speed numeric computing. Discover how Python provides a unique mix of elegance, simplicity, practicality, and sheer power. This edition covers: Python syntax, Object-Oriented Python, standard library modules, and third-party Python packages Python's support for file and text operations, persistence and databases, concurrent execution, and numeric computations Networking basics, event-driven programming, and client-side network protocol modules Python extension modules, and tools for packaging and distributing extensions, modules, and applications.

Python in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Useful in many roles, from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance, Python is consistently ranked among today’s most popular programming languages. The third edition of this practical book provides a quick reference to the language—including Python 3.5, 2.7, and highlights of 3.6—commonly used areas of its vast standard library, and some of the most useful third-party modules and packages. Ideal for programmers with some Python experience, and those coming to Python from other programming languages, this book covers a wide range of application areas, including web and network programming, XML handling, database interactions, and high-speed numeric computing. Discover how Python provides a unique mix of elegance, simplicity, practicality, and sheer power. This edition covers: Python syntax, Object-Oriented Python, standard library modules, and third-party Python packages Python’s support for file and text operations, persistence and databases, concurrent execution, and numeric computations Networking basics, event-driven programming, and client-side network protocol modules Python extension modules, and tools for packaging and distributing extensions, modules, and applications

A Desktop Quick Reference

A provocative novel about love and death and the narrow line between them. Over one weekend in a small Tasmanian town, a transsexual mortician prepares three bodies for burial at a funeral home. As she carefully works on the Kremmer son, the Esterhazen girl and Mr Phillips, she reflects on her own unusual life and childhood--her father's obsession with taxidermy and other darker pursuits, her own induction into the arts of taxidermy, the death of her parents and her ultimate transformation from man to woman. Her sex change was a tentative step towards finding somebody to love her, and choosing a man came next. But when her plans to be with her chosen one are interrupted, she discovers just how far she will go to keep the hope of love alive. In a corrupt world where appearance is everything, what makes us open our hearts to others? Steve Holden's haunting debut novel reminds us that the search for love requires courage, no matter whose skin you inhabit.

Somebody to Love

David M. Beazley

A Python community leader teaches professionals how to integrate web applications with Python.

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