Fluent Python  - Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming

Fluent Python - Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming  (English, Paperback, Luciano Ramalho)

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Highlights
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Shroff/O'Reilly
  • Genre: Academic and Professional
  • ISBN: 9789352132058, 935213205X
  • Edition: 1, 2015
  • Pages: 768
Description
Python’s simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but this often means you aren’t using everything it has to offer. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to write effective, idiomatic Python code by leveraging its best—and possibly most neglected—features. Author Luciano Ramalho takes you through Python’s core language features and libraries, and shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable at the same time.

Many experienced programmers try to bend Python to fit patterns they learned from other languages, and never discover Python features outside of their experience. With this book, those Python programmers will thoroughly learn how to become proficient in Python 3.

This book covers:

  • Python data model: understand how special methods are the key to the consistent behavior of objects
  • Data structures: take full advantage of built-in types, and understand the text vs bytes duality in the Unicode age
  • Functions as objects: view Python functions as first-class objects, and understand how this affects popular design patterns
  • Object-oriented idioms: build classes by learning about references, mutability, interfaces, operator overloading, and multiple inheritance
  • Control flow: leverage context managers, generators, coroutines, and concurrency with the concurrent.futures and asyncio packages
  • Metaprogramming: understand how properties, attribute descriptors, class decorators, and metaclasses work
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Book Details
Imprint
  • Shroff/O'Reilly
Publication Year
  • 2015 Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 IST 2015
Book Type
  • Programming
Table of Contents
  • Prologue

    Chapter 1. The Python Data Model

    Data Structures

    Chapter 1. An Array of Sequences
    Chapter 2. Dictionaries and Sets
    Chapter 3. Text versus Bytes

    Functions as Objects

    Chapter 1. First-Class Functions
    Chapter 2. Design Patterns with First-Class Functions
    Chapter 3. Function Decorators and Closures

    Object-Oriented Idioms

    Chapter 1. Object References, Mutability, and Recycling
    Chapter 2. A Pythonic Object
    Chapter 3. Sequence Hacking, Hashing, and Slicing
    Chapter 4. Interfaces: From Protocols to ABCs
    Chapter 5. Inheritance: For Good or For Worse
    Chapter 6. Operator Overloading: Doing It Right

    Control Flow

    Chapter 1. Iterables, Iterators, and Generators
    Chapter 2. Context Managers and else Blocks
    Chapter 3. Coroutines
    Chapter 4. Concurrency with Futures
    Chapter 5. Concurrency with asyncio

    Control Flow

    Chapter 1. Iterables, Iterators, and Generators
    Chapter 2. Context Managers and else Blocks
    Chapter 3. Coroutines
    Chapter 4. Concurrency with Futures
    Chapter 5. Concurrency with asyncio

    Metaprogramming

    Chapter 1. Dynamic Attributes and Properties
    Chapter 2. Attribute Descriptors
    Chapter 3. Class Metaprogramming

    Appendix Support Scripts

    • Chapter 3: in Operator Performance Test
    • Chapter 3: Compare the Bit Patterns of Hashes
    • Chapter 9: RAM Usage With and Without __slots__
    • Chapter 14: isis2json.py Database Conversion Script
    • Chapter 16: Taxi Fleet Discrete Event Simulation
    • Chapter 17: Cryptographic Examples
    • Chapter 17: flags2 HTTP Client Examples
    • Chapter 19: OSCON Schedule Scripts and Tests
Contributors
Author Info
  • Luciano Ramalho was a Web developer before the Netscape IPO in 1995, and switched from Perl to Java to Python in 1998. Since then he worked on some of the largest news portals in Brazil using Python, and taught Python web development in the Brazilian media, banking and government sectors. His speaking credentials include PyCon US (2013), OSCON (2002, 2013), and 15 talks over the years at PythonBrasil (the Brazilian PyCon) and FISL (the largest FLOSS conference in the Southern Hemisphere). Ramalho is a member of the Python Software Foundation and co-founder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first hackerspace in Brazil. He is co-owner of Python.pro.br, atraining company.
School Books Details
Subject
  • Programming Languages, Programming, Computers & Internet
Dimensions
Width
  • 7 inch
Height
  • 9 inch
Depth
  • 1.4 inch
Weight
  • 1300 g
Ratings & Reviews
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5

Fantastic for the intermediate Python developer

Fluent Python is exactly the book I was looking for. As a long time Python developer, I was looking for a book that went further in-depth to the special, but rarely used features that help write cleaner, better python code. Luciano Ramalho has written a huge book that covers every aspect of Python, such as:

* In depth coverage of the built in data structures
* Higher order and functional style programming
* Nuts and bolts of Objects in python
* Sequences! Lots and lots about sequences, itera...
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Super!

Awesome book for intermediate programmer
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okay if you need to reference offline

python.org has well defined documentations and worthwhile to read as it has clear and concise info on every aspect of the language, sample working codes, better than any text for any user level
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Classy product

Must have book to learn advanced and indepth concepts in python.
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Expected a better product

It's definitely not original, it's a photocopy, binding quality is pethatic. Gum is all over the front and back cover. paper cutting is irregular.
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