Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (Developer's Library)

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A Fully Revised Edition Featuring New Material on Coroutines Debugging Testing Parsing String Formatting and More Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful convenient consistent and expressive than ever before. Now leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3s features and idioms. Programming in Python 3 Second Edition brings together all the knowledge you need to write any program use any standard or third-party Python 3 library and create new library modules of your own. Summerfield draws on his many years of Python experience to share deep insights into Python 3 development you wont find anywhere else. He begins by illuminating Pythons "beautiful heart": the eight key elements of Python you need to write robust high-performance programs. Building on these core elements he introduces new topics designed to strengthen your practical expertise-one concept and hands-on example at a time. Coverage includes Developing in Python using procedural objectoriented and functional programming paradigms Creating custom packages and modules Writing and reading binary text and XML files including optional compression random access and text and XML parsing Leveraging advanced data types collections control structures and functions Spreading program workloads across multiple processes and threads Programming SQL databases and key--value DBM files Debugging techniques-and using Test Driven Development to avoid bugs in the first place Utilizing Pythons regular expression mini-language and module Parsing techniques including how to use the third-party PyParsing and PLY modules Building usable efficient GUI-based applications Advanced programming techniques including generators function and class decorators context managers descriptors abstract base classes metaclasses coroutines and more Programming in Python 3 Second Edition serves as both tutorial and language reference. It assumes some prior programming experience and is accompanied by extensive downloadable example code-all of it tested with Python 3 on Windows Linux and Mac OS X. This edition covers Python 3.0 and 3.1 and due to the Python language moratorium it is also valid for Python 3.2 which has the same language as Python 3.1.