Python in Practice: Create Better Programs Using Concurrency, Libraries, and Patterns (Developer's Library) - Softcover

Summerfield, Mark

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9780321905635: Python in Practice: Create Better Programs Using Concurrency, Libraries, and Patterns (Developer's Library)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321905636 ISBN 13: 9780321905635

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2013

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Winner of the 2014 Jolt Award for "Best Book"

“Whether you are an experienced programmer or are starting your career, Python in Practice is full of valuable advice and example to help you improve your craft by thinking about problems from different perspectives, introducing tools, and detailing techniques to create more effective solutions.”

—Doug Hellmann, Senior Developer, DreamHost

If you’re an experienced Python programmer, Python in Practice will help you improve the quality, reliability, speed, maintainability, and usability of all your Python programs.

Mark Summerfield focuses on four key themes: design patterns for coding elegance, faster processing through concurrency and compiled Python (Cython), high-level networking, and graphics. He identifies well-proven design patterns that are useful in Python, illuminates them with expert-quality code, and explains why some object-oriented design patterns are irrelevant to Python. He also explodes several counterproductive myths about Python programming—showing, for example, how Python can take full advantage of multicore hardware.

All examples, including three complete case studies, have been tested with Python 3.3 (and, where possible, Python 3.2 and 3.1) and crafted to maintain compatibility with future Python 3.x versions. All code has been tested on Linux, and most code has also been tested on OS X and Windows. All code may be downloaded at www.qtrac.eu/pipbook.html.

Coverage includes

Leveraging Python’s most effective creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns
Supporting concurrency with Python’s multiprocessing, threading, and concurrent.futures modules
Avoiding concurrency problems using thread-safe queues and futures rather than fragile locks
Simplifying networking with high-level modules, including xmlrpclib and RPyC
Accelerating Python code with Cython, C-based Python modules, profiling, and other techniques
Creating modern-looking GUI applications with Tkinter
Leveraging today’s powerful graphics hardware via the OpenGL API using pyglet and PyOpenGL

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From the Author:

The book has won the Dr Dobbs JOLT best book award 2014. Amazon don't allow links so you'd have to search for it. Here are the first and last paragraphs of their review by Gigi Sayfan:

"Mark Summerfield's Python in Practice is a fascinating book intended for intermediate and advanced Python developers. Rather than being a primer, it attacks advanced issues in Python -- the ones that go beyond bread-and-butter programming. It imparts the skills that distinguish the expert from the journeyman. In other words, if you're a decent, but not yet great Python programmer, this is book is for you."

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"Overall, the book has the right mix of high-level concepts, low-level details, and code samples. Its pragmatic treatment of useful topics, lucid explanations, succinct code, and careful attention to presentation make it an excellent book for intermediate to advanced Python developers and the Jolt Award winner for 2014."

About the Author:

Mark Summerfield, owner of Qtrac Ltd., is an independent trainer, consultant, technical editor, and writer specializing in C++, Go, Python, Qt, and PyQt. His books include Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt; C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, Second Edition (with Jasmin Blanchette); Programming inPython 3, Second Edition; and Advanced Qt Programming, and Programming in Go, all from Addison-Wesley.

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