Author is well known for his online Python tutorials, "Instant Python" and "Instant Hacking"
Focused on providing practical Python instruction with only topics of interest to mainstream developers
Readers can download the complete source code of all ten projects
Author is well known for his online Python tutorials, "Instant Python" and "Instant Hacking"
Focused on providing practical Python instruction with only topics of interest to mainstream developers
Readers can download the complete source code of all ten projects
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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The author focuses on mainstream, useful and usable instruction in a popular, open sourceillegalscripting language. Readers can download the complete source code of all ten projects, allowing for experimentation or integration into other projects.
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Practical Python offers a highly useful guide to the Python programming language. In disarmingly readable prose, author Magnus Lie Hetland guides you through those concepts of most importance to the budding Python developer.
Following a succinct overview of the installation process, Hetland brings you up to speed regarding the general programming precepts common to every high-level language, including datatypes, conditionals and looping, abstractions, and modularity. Notably, Hetland takes great care to provide a thorough introduction to Python's potentially confusing datatype offering, including lists, tuples, and dictionaries, providing numerous examples aimed toward familiarizing you with their subtle, yet important differences.
Primed with the language's foundational knowledge, youll then be introduced to Pythons file-handling, database, graphical user interface, and string-handling capabilities. Additionally, Hetland offers an excellent review of Pythons object-oriented, functional, and exception-handling capabilities. All chapters are peppered with references to Python's useful built-in functions, which is done with the intention of demonstrating the considerable features offered by the default Python distribution.
Hetland devotes the second half of the book to project development, taking great care to choose a series of ten increasingly complex applications that are of timely and wide-ranging interest to burgeoning and expert developers alike. Project focus includes automated document conversion, newsgroup administration, graphical PDF document generation, remote document maintenance, the creation of a peer-to-peer system with XML-RPC, database integration, and GUI and game development.
Chapter 1:Instant Hacking:The Basics;Chapter 2:Lists and Tuples;Chapter 3:Working with Strings;Chapter 4: Dictionaries:When Indices Won't Do;Chapter 5:Conditionals, Loops,and Some Other Statements;Chapter 6:Abstraction; Chapter 7:More Abstraction;Chapter 8:Exceptions;Chapter 9:Magic Methods,Properties,and Iterators;Chapter 10: Batteries Included;Chapter 11:Files and Stuff;Chapter 12: Graphical User Interfaces;Chapter 13:Playful Programming; Chapter 14:Project 1:Instant Markup;Chapter 15:Project 2: Painting a Pretty Picture;Chapter 16: Project 3:XML for All Occasions;Chapter 17:Project 4:In the News; Chapter 18: Project 5:A Virtual Tea Party;Chapter 19: Project 6:Remote Editing with CGI;Chapter 20:Project 7: Your Own Bulletin Board;Chapter 21:Project 8:File Sharing with XML-RPC;Chapter 22:Project 9:File Sharing II-Now with GUI!;Chapter 23: Project 10:Do-It-Yourself Arcade Game;Appendix A The Short Version;Appendix B Python Reference;Appendix C Online Ressou
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Chapter 1:Instant Hacking:The Basics;Chapter 2:Lists and Tuples;Chapter 3:Working with Strings;Chapter 4: Dictionaries:When Indices Won't Do;Chapter 5:Conditionals, Loops,and Some Other Statements;Chapter 6:Abstraction; Chapter 7:More Abstraction;Chapter 8:Exceptions;Chapter 9:Magic Methods,Properties,and Iterators;Chapter 10: Batteries Included;Chapter 11:Files and Stuff;Chapter 12: Graphical User Interfaces;Chapter 13:Playful Programming; Chapter 14:Project 1:Instant Markup;Chapter 15:Project 2: Painting a Pretty Picture;Chapter 16: Project 3:XML for All Occasions;Chapter 17:Project 4:In the News; Chapter 18: Project 5:A Virtual Tea Party;Chapter 19: Project 6:Remote Editing with CGI;Chapter 20:Project 7: Your Own Bulletin Board;Chapter 21:Project 8:File Sharing with XML-RPC;Chapter 22:Project 9:File Sharing II-Now with GUI!;Chapter 23: Project 10:Do-It-Yourself Arcade Game;Appendix A The Short Version;Appendix B Python Reference;Appendix C Online Ressou
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The author focuses on mainstream, useful and usable instruction in a popular, open sourceillegalscripting language.
The author focuses on mainstream, useful and usable instruction in a popular, open sourceillegalscripting language. Readers can download the complete source code of all ten projects, allowing for experimentation or integration into other projects.
