Python in a nutshell / Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, and Steve Holden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martelli, Alex, author.

Ravenscroft, Anna Martelli, author.

Holden, Steve, 1950- author.

Series:

In a nutshell (O'Reilly & Associates)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Python (Computer program language).

Scripting languages (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 749 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Python

2. The Python Interpreter

3. The Python Language

4. Object-Oriented Python

5. Exceptions

6. Modules

7. Core Built-ins and Standard Library Modules

8. Strings and Things

9. Regular Expressions

10. File and Text Operations

11. Persistence and Databases

12. Time Operations

13. Controlling Execution

14. Threads and Processes

15. Numeric Processing

16. Testing, Debugging, and Optimizing

17. Networking Basics

18. Asynchronous Alternatives

19. Client-Side Network Protocol Modules

20. Serving HTTP

21. Email, MIME, and Other Network Encodings

22. Structured Text: HTML

23. Structured Text: XML

24. Extending and Embedding Classic Python

25. Distributing Extensions and Programs

26. v2/v3 Migration and Coexistence.

Notes:

"Covers Python 2.7 & 3.5 with 3.6 highlights"--Cover.

"The definitive references"--Cover subtitle.

Previous edition: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 26, 2017).

ISBN:

9781491913833

1491913835

9781491913857

1491913851

9781491913864

149191386X

9781449392925

144939292X

OCLC:

964632282