Core Python Programming

by Wesley J. Chun

Praise for "Core Python Programming" The Complete Developer's Guide to Python
New to Python? The definitive guide to Python development for experienced programmers
Covers core language features thoroughly, including those found in the latest Python releases-learn "more" than just the syntax!
Learn advanced topics such as regular expressions, networking, multithreading, GUI, Web/CGI, and Python extensions
Includes brand-new material on databases, Internet clients, Java/Jython, and Microsoft Office, plus Python 2.6 and 3
Presents hundreds of code snippets, interactive examples, and practical exercises to strengthen your Python skills
Python is an agile, robust, expressive, fully object-oriented, extensible, and scalable programming language. It combines the power of compiled languages with the simplicity and rapid development of scripting languages. In "Core Python Programming, Second Edition," leading Python developer and trainer Wesley Chun helps you learn Python quickly and comprehensively so that you can immediately succeed with any Python project. Using practical code examples, Chun introduces all the fundamentals of Python programming: syntax, objects and memory management, data types, operators, files and I/O, functions, generators, error handling and exceptions, loops, iterators, functional programming, object-oriented programming and more. After you learn the core fundamentals of Python, he shows you what you can do with your new skills, delving into advanced topics, such as regular expressions, networking programming with sockets, multithreading, GUI development, Web/CGI programming and extending Python in C. This edition reflects major enhancements in the Python 2.x series, including 2.6 and tips for migrating to 3. It contains new chapters on database and Internet client programming, plus coverage of many new topics, including new-style classes, Java and Jython, Microsoft Office (Win32 COM Client) programming, and much more.
Learn professional Python style, best practices, and good programming habits
Gain a deep understanding of Python's objects and memory model as well as its OOP features, including those found in Python's new-style classes
Build more effective Web, CGI, Internet, and network and other client/server applications
Learn how to develop your own GUI applications using Tkinter and other toolkits available for Python
Improve the performance of your Python applications by writing extensions in C and other languages, or enhance I/O-bound applications by using multithreading
Learn about Python's database API and how to use a variety of database systems with Python, including MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite
Features appendices on Python 2.6 & 3, including tips on migrating to the next generation!

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Computers, Technology, Reference, Nonfiction, Software

1136 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 15, 2000

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

If anything, learn to love the Snake that is Python.

I've never used a language easier and faster for prototying, processing text info, making GUIs/debugging-programs/utilities.

Yeah yeah, I know there's that "other" scripting language. The Camel was just terrible for me. I still couldn't program in that language after a year without looking in my book over and over. It isn't intuitive, designed well, and... jeez, I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

The Snake is beautiful, I was doing more in that language in a week than I ever did in a year with the Camel.

[Steven Oxley · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was very disappointed with the quality of this book. It is advertised as the python book for experienced programmers, but I found it tedious - I skipped big portions of it - and even redundant within itself. The same concept that I knew before reading the book would be explained multiple times. Also, the code examples and text were peppered with obvious errors. I don't think anyone proofread the book before it was published.

[David Hurst · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book for picking up Python. Although it is important that the reader has mastered another major programming language before reading.

I wish the author had not addressed multiple versions in one book. It makes more difficult to remember this language... Which is already difficult due to the number of reserved words and methods.

[Minger]

Python is fun language with tons of wicked applications.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

slowly chewing thru this, but less urgently now that I'm working in different sofware on my current project.

[Zack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great for learning Python if you don't need an easy introduction.

[Derek · Rating 3 out of 5]

Regardless of how old this book is now (2014), it still covers the basics of python that you need to know.

[Madre Ma · Rating 5 out of 5]

like it so much. I has bought one.