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Useful in many roles, from design and prototyping to testing, deployment and maintenance, Python is consistently ranked among todays 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 3.6ãcommonly 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
Pythons 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

About the Author

Alex Martelli
Alex Martelli spent 8 years with IBM Research, then 13 at think3 inc., followed by 4 years as a consultant (mostly for AB Strakt in G_teborg, Sweden) and lately 12 years at Google (currently as tech lead of 1:many tech support for Google Cloud Platform). He has also taught programming languages, development methods and numerical computing at Ferrara University and other venues. Hes a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, a winner of the Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to the Python community and a top-page reputation hog on Stack Overflow. Books hes authored or co-authored include two editions of the Python Cookbook, three of Python in a Nutshell and Beautiful Teams. Dozens of his tech talks at conferences and interviews with him, are available on YouTube.
Alexs proudest achievement are the articles that appeared in Bridge World (January and February 2000), which were hailed as giant steps towards solving issues that had haunted contract bridge theoreticians for decades and still get quoted in current bridge-theoretical literature, after all these years.
Anna Ravenscroft
Anna Martelli Ravenscroft is an experienced speaker and trainer, with a background developing curricula for a wide range of topics, from church, to regional transit, to disaster preparedness; developing web applications for therapy, learning and fitness; and writing and reviewing technical books, articles and presentations. While not a professional programmer, She is a Python enthusiast and an active member of the Open Source community: shes a PSF Fellow and winner of the 2013 Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to the Python community. Anna co-authored the second edition of the Python Cookbook and the third edition of Python in a Nutshell. She lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Alex, two dogs, one cat and eight chickens.
Steve Holden
Steve Holden is CTO of a stress-management start-up in the UK. He has taught many classes on TCP/IP, network security, database and programming topics and was the author of Python Web Programming, the OReilly School of Technologys Certificate series in Python and OReilly Medias Intermediate Python video series.
Steve has spent time on both sides of the academic divide and was an early researcher into the integration of text, graphics and database while teaching system development topics at Manchester University. This research led him to form Desktop Connection Limited, the first UK reseller of Frame Technologys (now Adobes) Frame Maker software. His customers included British Telecom, British Aerospace, British Gas and Sun Microsystems.
Born and raised in the UK, Steve has travelled throughout Europe and the USA on teaching assignments. He recently returned to the UK after 20 years in the USA and now lives in Hastings, where when not working or writing he enjoys looking for worthwhile beers, entertaining friends and family and reading science fiction.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789352135400
  • Publisher: Shroff/o'reilly
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 0 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9352135407
  • Publisher Date: 1 December 2017
  • Height: 36 mm
  • No of Pages: 768
  • Width: 229 mm

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