* Manipulating text
* Searching and sorting
* Working with files and the filesystem
* Object-oriented programming
* Dealing with threads and processes
* System administration
* Interacting with databases
* Creating user interfaces
* Network and web programming
* Processing XML
* Distributed programming
* Debugging and testing

Another advantage of The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition is its trio of authors–three well-known Python programming experts, who are highly visible on email lists and in newsgroups, and speak often at Python conferences. With scores of practical examples and pertinent background information, The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition is the one source you need if you’re looking to build efficient, flexible, scalable, and well-integrated systems.

Book Info
A collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples written by Python programmers in the style of the popular Perl Cookbook. Anyone interested in Python programming will want this wealth of practical advice, snippets of code, and patterns of program design.

First off, Learning Python shows the relationships among Python scripts and their interpreter (in a mostly platform-neutral way). Then, the authors address the mechanics of the language itself, providing illustrations of how Python conceives of numbers, strings, and other objects as well as the operators you use to work with them. Dictionaries, lists, tuples, and other data structures specific to Python receive plenty of attention including complete examples.

Authors Mark Lutz and David Ascher build on that fundamental information in their discussions of functions and modules, which evolve into coverage of namespaces, classes, and the object-oriented aspects of Python programming. There’s also information on creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Python applications with Tkinter.

In addition to its careful expository prose, Learning Python includes exercises that both test your Python skills and help reveal more elusive truths about the language. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description
Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is ideal for both standalone programs and scripting applications. With this hands-on book, you can master the fundamentals of the core Python language quickly and efficiently, whether you’re new to programming or just new to Python. Once you finish, you will know enough about the language to use it in any application domain you choose.

Learning Python is based on material from author Mark Lutz’s popular training courses, which he’s taught over the past decade. Each chapter is a self-contained lesson that helps you thoroughly understand a key component of Python before you continue. Along with plenty of annotated examples, illustrations, and chapter summaries, every chapter also contains Brain Builder, a unique section with practical exercises and review quizzes that let you practice new skills and test your understanding as you go.

This book covers:

* Types and Operations — Python’s major built-in object types in depth: numbers, lists, dictionaries, and more

* Statements and Syntax — the code you type to create and process objects in Python, along with Python’s general syntax model

* Functions — Python’s basic procedural tool for structuring and reusing code

* Modules — packages of statements, functions, and other tools organized into larger components

* Classes and OOP — Python’s optional object-oriented programming tool for structuring code for customization and reuse

* Exceptions and Tools — exception handling model and statements, plus a look at development tools for writing larger programs

Learning Python gives you a deep and complete understanding of the language that will help you comprehend any application-level examples of Python that you later encounter. If you’re ready to discover what Google and YouTube see in Python, this book is the best way to get started.

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional by Magnus Lie Hetland
Publisher: Apress (September 26, 2005)
640 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 159059519X

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional is the most comprehensive book on the Python ever written. Based on Practical Python, this newly revised book is both an introduction and practical reference for a swath of Python-related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and web services. Advanced topics, such as extending Python and packaging/distributing Python applications, are also covered. Ten different projects illustrate the concepts introduced in the book. You will learn how to create a P2P file-sharing application and a web-based bulletin board, and how to remotely edit web-based documents and create games. Author Magnus Lie Hetland is an authority on Python and previously authored Practical Python. He also authored the popular online guide, Instant Python Hacking, on which both books are based.

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