The Quick Python Book, Third Edition
Naomi Ceder
  • MEAP began December 2016
  • Publication in Spring 2017 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781617294037
  • 400 pages (estimated)
  • printed in black & white
The Quick Python Book, Third Edition
Naomi Ceder
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This third revision of Manning's popular The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp updated introduction to the elegant Python programming language and its famously easy-to-read syntax. Written for programmers new to Python, this latest edition includes new exercises throughout. It covers features common to other languages concisely, while introducing Python's comprehensive standard functions library and unique features in detail.

After exploring Python's syntax, control flow, and basic data structures, the book shows how to create and deploy full applications and larger code libraries. It addresses established Python features as well as the advanced object-oriented options available in Python 3. Along the way, you'll survey the current Python development landscape, including Pythonic best practices, data extraction and cleaning, database access, and web frameworks.

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Part 1: Starting out

1. About Python

1.1. Why should I use Python?

1.2. What Python does well

1.2.1. Python is easy to use

1.2.2. Python is expressive

1.2.3. Python is readable

1.2.4. Python is complete - "batteries included"

1.2.5. Python is cross-platform

1.2.6. Python is free

1.3. What Python doesn't do as well

1.3.1. Python is not the fastest language

1.3.2. Python doesn't have the most libraries

1.3.3. Python doesn't check variable types at compile time

1.3.4. Python doesn't have much mobile support

1.3.5. Python doesn't use multiple processors well

1.4. Why learn Python 3?

1.5. Summary

2. Getting started

2.1. Installing Python

2.2. IDLE and the basic interactive mode

2.2.1. The basic interactive mode

2.2.2. The IDLE integrated development environment

2.2.3. Choosing between basic interactive mode and IDLE

2.3. Using IDLE's Python Shell window

2.4. Hello, world

2.5. Using the interactive prompt to explore Python

2.6. Summary

3. The Quick Python overview

3.1. Python synopsis

3.2. Built-in data types

3.2.1. Numbers

3.2.2. Lists

3.2.3. Tuples

3.2.4. Strings

3.2.5. Dictionaries

3.2.6. Sets

3.2.7. File objects

3.3. Control flow structures

3.3.1. Boolean values and expressions

3.3.2. The if-elif-else statement

3.3.3. The while loop

3.3.4. The for loop

3.3.5. Function definition

3.3.6. Exceptions

3.3.7. Context handling using with

3.4. Module creation

3.5. Object-oriented programming

3.6. Summary

Part 2: The essentials

4. The absolute basics

5. Lists, tuples, and sets

6. Strings

7. Dictionaries

8. Control flow

9. Functions

10. Modules and scoping rules

11. Python programs

12. Using the filesystem

13. Reading and writing files

14. Exceptions

Part 3: Advanced language features

15. Classes and object-oriented programming

16. Regular expressions

17. Data types as objects

18. Packages

19. Using Python libraries

Part 4: Data handling

20. Handling Files

21. Processing Data Files

22. Data over the Network

23. Databases

24. Manipulating Data

What's inside

  • Concepts and Python 3 features
  • Regular expressions and OOP aspects
  • Python packaging and tools
  • Lots of exercises
  • All the Python you need - nothing you don't

About the author

Naomi Ceder is an elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation who has been learning, using, and teaching Python since 2001.

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