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Master the Powerful Python 3 Standard Library through Real Code Examples
“The genius of Doug’s approach is that with 15 minutes per week, any motivated programmer can learn the Python Standard Library. Doug’s guided tour will help you flip the switch to fully power-up Python’s batteries.”
–Raymond Hettinger, Distinguished Python Core Developer
The Python 3 Standard Library contains hundreds of modules for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet–all extensively tested and ready to jump-start application development. Now, Python expert Doug Hellmann introduces every major area of the Python 3.x library through concise source code and output examples. Hellmann’s examples fully demonstrate each feature and are designed for easy learning and reuse.
You’ll find practical code for working with text, data structures, algorithms, dates/times, math, the file system, persistence, data exchange, compression, archiving, crypto, processes/threads, networking, Internet capabilities, email, developer and language tools, the runtime, packages, and more. Each section fully covers one module, with links to additional resources, making this book an ideal tutorial and reference.
The Python 3 Standard Library by Example introduces Python 3.x’s new libraries, significant functionality changes, and new layout and naming conventions. Hellmann also provides expert porting guidance for moving code from 2.x Python standard library modules to their Python 3.x equivalents.
Manipulate text with string, textwrap, re (regular expressions), and difflib Use data enum, collections, array, heapq, queue, struct, copy, and more Implement algorithms elegantly and concisely with functools, itertools, and contextlib Handle dates/times and advanced mathematical tasks Archive and data compression Understand data exchange and persistence, including json, dbm, and sqlite Sign and verify messages cryptographically Manage concurrent operations with processes and threads Test, debug, compile, profile, language, import, and package tools Control interaction at runtime with interpreters or the environment
Master the Powerful Python 3 Standard Library through Real Code Examples
“The genius of Doug’s approach is that with 15 minutes per week, any motivated programmer can learn the Python Standard Library. Doug’s guided tour will help you flip the switch to fully power-up Python’s batteries.”
–Raymond Hettinger, Distinguished Python Core Developer
The Python 3 Standard Library contains hundreds of modules for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet–all extensively tested and ready to jump-start application development. Now, Python expert Doug Hellmann introduces every major area of the Python 3.x library through concise source code and output examples. Hellmann’s examples fully demonstrate each feature and are designed for easy learning and reuse.
You’ll find practical code for working with text, data structures, algorithms, dates/times, math, the file system, persistence, data exchange, compression, archiving, crypto, processes/threads, networking, Internet capabilities, email, developer and language tools, the runtime, packages, and more. Each section fully covers one module, with links to additional resources, making this book an ideal tutorial and reference.
The Python 3 Standard Library by Example introduces Python 3.x’s new libraries, significant functionality changes, and new layout and naming conventions. Hellmann also provides expert porting guidance for moving code from 2.x Python standard library modules to their Python 3.x equivalents.
Manipulate text with string, textwrap, re (regular expressions), and difflib Use data enum, collections, array, heapq, queue, struct, copy, and more Implement algorithms elegantly and concisely with functools, itertools, and contextlib Handle dates/times and advanced mathematical tasks Archive and data compression Understand data exchange and persistence, including json, dbm, and sqlite Sign and verify messages cryptographically Manage concurrent operations with processes and threads Test, debug, compile, profile, language, import, and package tools Control interaction at runtime with interpreters or the environment
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Published June 14, 2017
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January 2, 2018
Irreplaceable for practical usage of "low"-level libraries. While the official Python 3 documentation is good compared to other language's documentations, it's really shallow regarding practicality and application of example code provided.
For a very practical reminder of Python 3 modules - the book was extremely helpful to me.
And most importantly for working with binary data and implementing/reversing binary protocols.
The `struct`, `io` and `zlib` module pages were most useful to me.
However the concurrency part of the book is not bad by any means, but the Python 3 documentation feels like it caught up to the book. In some areas such as futures - I preferred the Python 3 documentation.
For a very practical reminder of Python 3 modules - the book was extremely helpful to me.
And most importantly for working with binary data and implementing/reversing binary protocols.
The `struct`, `io` and `zlib` module pages were most useful to me.
However the concurrency part of the book is not bad by any means, but the Python 3 documentation feels like it caught up to the book. In some areas such as futures - I preferred the Python 3 documentation.
July 6, 2017
Very useful.
October 24, 2019
A really detailed book. You can learn a lot of the libraries from this
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