Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language, Second Edition

Practical Python 3 for experienced developers: use the right idioms, techniques, and features to write great code Written from a completely Python 3 point of view: teaches best practices for making the most of todays newest version of Python. Designed to help developers get productive fast... then learn how to write any program, use any library, create any library module. Includes expert guidance on migrating Python 2 code to Python 3. Around the world, programmers appreciate Python for its simplicity, power, expressiveness, and the sheer pleasure of writing Python code. Python 3.1 is the newest and best version of the language yet: more convenient, more consistent, and easier to use. Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of the latest Python 3 features and idioms. Programming in Python 3, 2/e , brings together all the knowledge needed to write programs, use any library, and even create new library modules. The book teaches every aspect of the Python 3 language. It covers all the built-in functionality, as well as key components of Pythons standard library. Structured so readers can write Python programs from chapter 1, each subsequent chapter provides further depth and broader coverage. Two new chapters have been added to this edition increasing the coverage to include parsing, debugging, testing, and profiling. Readers will master Python procedural and object-oriented techniques; creation of custom modules and packages; writing and reading files; multithreading; networking; database programming; GUIs; regular expressions; application debugging, testing, and profiling; and more. Detailed appendices include coverage of migrating applications from Python 2 to Python 3, plus a complete language reference. All sample code has been tested with the final version of Python 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.