Python’s simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but this often means you aren’t using everything it has to offer. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to write effective, idiomatic Python code by leveraging its best—and possibly most neglected—features. Author Luciano Ramalho takes you through Python’s core language features and libraries, and shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable at the same time.
Many experienced programmers try to bend Python to fit patterns they learned from other languages, and never discover Python features outside of their experience. With this book, those Python programmers will thoroughly learn how to become proficient in Python 3.
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Python data model: understand how special methods are the key to the consistent behavior of objects</li>
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Data structures: take full advantage of built-in types, and understand the text vs bytes duality in the Unicode age</li>
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Functions as objects: view Python functions as first-class objects, and understand how this affects popular design patterns</li>
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Object-oriented idioms: build classes by learning about references, mutability, interfaces, operator overloading, and multiple inheritance</li>
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Control flow: leverage context managers, generators, coroutines, and concurrency with the concurrent.futures and asyncio packages</li>
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Metaprogramming: understand how properties, attribute descriptors, class decorators, and metaclasses work</li>
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Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming

Computers & Technology

Ramalho, Luciano

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media

Don't waste time bending Python to fit patterns you've learned in other languages. Python's simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but often this means you aren't using everything the language has to offer. With the updated edition of this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging its best ideas. 
Discover and apply idiomatic Python 3 features beyond your past experience. Author Luciano Ramalho guides you through Python's core language features and libraries and teaches you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable. 
Complete with major updates throughout, this new edition features five parts that work as five short books within the book: Data structures: Sequences, dicts, sets, Unicode, and data classes Functions as objects: First-class functions, related design patterns, and type hints in function declarations Object-oriented idioms: Composition, inheritance, mixins, interfaces, operator overloading, protocols, and more static types Control flow: Context managers, generators, coroutines, async/await, and thread/process pools Metaprogramming: Properties, attribute descriptors, class decorators, and new class metaprogramming hooks that replace or simplify metaclasses

Web Development & Design

Programmer avec Python

Programming

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