Python 3's Standard Library is an ocean of modules that developers can use for various kinds of application development. Given the exhaustive list of libraries, how do you choose the best one to solve your programming needs? This book will show you how you can address specific programming problems in Python using the standard libraries effectively.

The book begins with recipes on containers and data structures and how to perform effective text management in Python. You will find recipes for command line operations, networking, file systems and directories, and concurrent execution. You will learn about security essentials in Python and various development tools for debugging, benchmarking, inspection, error reporting, code evacuation, and tracing. The book covers recipes on graphical user interfaces, multimedia, date and time, and mathematical functions and algorithms.

By the end of the book you will have acquired the skills to write clean codes in Python that meets your team's expectations.

What you will learn

Store multiple values per key in associative containers
Create interactive character based user interfaces
Working with native time and displaying data according to your timezone
Read/write SGML family languages, both as a SAX and DOM parser to suite various needs and file sizes
Group equivalent items using Itertools and sorted features together
Use partials to create unary functions out of multi-arguments functions
Implement hashing algorithms to store passwords in a safe way

Who This Book Is For

This book is well suited for a developer who wants to write highly responsive, manageable, scalable, and resilient code in Python. Prior programming knowledge in Python is expected to make the most out of the book.

About the Author

Alessandro Molina has been a Python developer since 2001, and has always been interested in Python as a web development platform. He has worked as a CTO and a team leader of Python teams for the past 10 years and is currently the core developer of the TurboGears2 web framework and maintainer of Beaker Caching/Session framework. He authored the DEPOT file storage framework and the DukPy JavaScript interpreter for Python and has collaborated with various Python projects related to web development, such as FormEncode, ToscaWidgets, and the Ming MongoDB ORM.

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