Supercharged Python: Take Your Code to the Next Level

by Brian Overland, John Bennett

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780135159941
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	07/08/2019
Pages:	672
Sales rank:	1,093,326
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

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.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Review of the Fundamentals
• Chapter 2: Advanced String Capabilities
• Chapter 3: Advanced List Capabilities
• Chapter 4: Shortcuts, Command Line, and Packages
• Chapter 5: Formatting Text Precisely
• Chapter 6: Regular Expressions, Part I
• Chapter 7: Regular Expressions, Part II
• Chapter 8: Text and Binary Files
• Chapter 9: Classes and Magic Methods
• Chapter 10: Decimal, Money, and Other Classes
• Chapter 11: The Random and Math Packages
• Chapter 12: The “numpy” (Numeric Python) Package
• Chapter 13: Advanced Uses of “numpy”
• Chapter 14: Multiple Modules and the RPN Example
• Chapter 15: Getting Financial Data off the Internet
• Appendix A Python Operator Precedence Table
• Appendix B Built-In Python Functions
• Appendix C Set Methods
• Appendix D Dictionary Methods
• Appendix E Statement Reference