2nd Edition. — O’Reilly Media, 2020. — 630 р. — ISBN 978-1-492-05136-7.
2019-11-06: First Release
Easy to understand and fun to read, Introducing Python is ideal for beginning programmers as well as those new to the language. Author Bill Lubanovic takes you from the basics to more involved and varied topics, mixing tutorials with cookbook-style code recipes to explain concepts in Python 3. End-of-chapter exercises help you practice what
you’ve learned.
You’ll gain a strong foundation in the language, including best practices for testing, debugging, code reuse, and other development tips. This book also shows you how to use Python for applications in business, science, and the arts, using various Python tools and open source packages.
Learn simple data types, and basic math and text operations
Use data-wrangling techniques with Python’s built-in data structures
Explore Python code structure, including the use of functions
Write large programs in Python, with modules and packages
Dive into objects, classes, and other object-oriented features
Examine storage from flat files to relational databases and NoSQL
Use Python to build web clients, servers, APIs, and services
Manage system tasks such as programs, processes, and threads
Understand the basics of concurrency and network programming
Python BasicsA Taste of Py
Data: Types, Values, Variables, and Names
Numbers
Choose with if
Text Strings
Loop with while and for
Tuples and Lists
Dictionaries and Sets
Functions
Oh Oh: Objects and Classes
Modules, Packages, and Goodies
Python in PracticeWrangle and Mangle Data
Calendars and Clocks
Files and Directories
Data in Time: Processes and Concurrency
Data in a Box: Persistent Storage
Data in Space: Networks
The Web, Untangled
Be a Pythonista
Py Art
Py at Work
Py Sci
Hardware and Software for Beginning Programmers
Install Python 3
Something Completely Different: Async
Answers to Exercises
Cheat Sheets
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