Supercharged Python : Take Your Code to the Next Level

Brian Overland

ISBN 10: 0135159946 / ISBN 13: 9780135159941

Published by Pearson Education Jul 2019, 2019

About this Item

Neuware - According to Stack Overflow, Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language. (Due in some measure to the rich set of machine learning and data science libraries and frameworks available to Python coders.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Supercharged Python : Take Your Code to the Next Level
• Publisher: Pearson Education Jul 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0135159946
• ISBN 13: 9780135159941
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 181H x 35D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 181 millimeters height by 35 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1072 grams

About this title

Synopsis

If you’re ready to write better Python code and use more advanced features, Advanced Python Programming was written for you. Brian Overland and John Bennett distill advanced topics down to their essentials, illustrating them with simple examples and practical exercises. 

Building on Overland’s widely-praised approach in Python Without Fear, the authors start with short, simple examples designed for easy entry, and quickly ramp you up to creating useful utilities and games, and using Python to solve interesting puzzles. Everything you’ll need to know is patiently explained and clearly illustrated, and the authors illuminate the design decisions and tricks behind each language feature they cover. You’ll gain the in-depth understanding to successfully apply all these advanced features and techniques: 

• Coding for runtime efficiency
• Lambda functions (and when to use them)
• Managing versioning 
• Localization and Unicode
• Regular expressions
• Binary operators 
• Radix conversions 
• Data formatting, in depth
• Creating, building, and importing packages
• Using the Django web-development package
• Graphics programming
• Magic methods and advanced object orientation
• Reading and writing binary files, and more

About the Author

Brian Overland is a textbook author, sometime actor, programmer, film reviewer, and novelist. He has been professionally programming with the C family of languages since the early 1980s and spent 10 years at Microsoft, first as a software tester and then as programmer/writer, manager, and project lead. Almost unique among programmers, he is an award-winning writer deeply committed to teaching and simplifying advanced concepts. You can read his comments on technology, reviews, and his upcoming book projects at brianoverland.com.

John Bennett was formerly a senior software engineer at Proximity Technology, Franklin Electronic Publishing, and Microsoft Corporation. More recently, he has developed new programming languages using Python as a prototyping tool. He has worked on a variety of software projects, including a handheld spellchecker and East Asian handwriting recognition software. He holds nine U.S. patents.