Python is easy to learn. You can learn the basics in a day and be productive with it. But there are more advanced constructs that you will eventually run across if you spend enough time with it. These constructs, while not necessary per se, allow you to be more succinct, re-use code, and think about code in a different way. This book covers many of these intermediate constructs: * Functional programming * List comprehensions * Generator expressions * Set & dict comprehensions * Iteration * Generators * Closures * Decorators I have taught these constructs at popular tutorials at PyCon and other conferences. This book is based on my experience teaching and using Python for many years. I hope you learn something while in the course of your reading. Maybe it will help you in your next task, code review, or job interview.
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About Matt Harrison Matt Harrison has over a dozen years of Python experience across the domains of search, build management and testing, business intelligence and storage. He has presented and taught tutorials at conferences such as Strata, SCALE, PyCON and OSCON as well as local user conferences. The structure and content of this book is based off of first hand experience teaching Python to many individuals.
He blogs at hairysun.com and occasionally tweets useful Python related information at @__mharrison__.
I thought it was intriguing and ended up learning some new tricks that I hope to implement in my own code soon....You'll almost certainly pick up something new just in the first section. If you don't know much about generators, iterators or decorators in Python, then this book will help you figure it out and hopefully give you ideas of how you could use them in your code. I know I learned a few things (and probably re-learned a few others!).- Mike Driscoll - blog.pythonlibrary.org/
Cleaned up some ugly with closures today, after reading @__mharrison__'s decorators ebook.- @MattJDarling
Been meaning to tweet you that Treading on Python 2 was great. The best breakdown of decorators I've seen yet.- @oceankidbilly
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