Core Python Applications Programming

by Wesley J. Chun

Already know Python but want to learn more? A lot more? Dive into a variety of topics used in practice for real-world applications. Covers regular expressions, Internet/network programming, GUIs, SQL/databases/ORMs, threading, and Web development. Learn about contemporary development trends such as Google+, Twitter, MongoDB, OAuth, Python 3 migration, and Java/Jython. Presents brand new material on Django, Google App Engine, CSV/JSON/XML, and Microsoft Office. Includes Python 2 and 3 code samples to get you started right away! Provides code snippets, interactive examples, and practical exercises to help build your Python skills.

The Complete Developer’s Guide to Python Python is an agile, robust, and expressive programming language that continues to build momentum. It combines the power of compiled languages with the simplicity and rapid development of scripting languages. In Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition, leading Python developer and corporate trainer Wesley Chun helps you take your Python knowledge to the next level.

 

This book has everything you need to become a versatile Python developer. You will be introduced to multiple areas of application development and gain knowledge that can be immediately applied to projects, and you will find code samples in both Python 2 and 3, including migration tips if that’s on your roadmap too. Some snippets will even run unmodified on 2.x or 3.x.

 

Learn professional Python style, best practices, and good programming habits Build clients and servers using TCP, UDP, XML-RPC, and be exposed to higher-level libraries like SocketServer and Twisted Develop GUI applications using Tkinter and other available toolkits Improve application performance by writing extensions in C/C++, or enhance I/O-bound code with multithreading Discover SQL and relational databases, ORMs, and even non-relational (NonSQL) databases like MongoDB Learn the basics of Web programming, including Web clients and servers, plus CGI and WSGI Expose yourself to regular expressions and powerful text processing tools for creating and parsing CSV, JSON, and XML data Interface with popular Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook using COM client programming Dive deeper into Web development with the Django framework and cloud computing with Google App Engine Explore Java programming with Jython, the way to run Python code on the JVM Connect to Web services Yahoo! Finance to get stock quotes, or Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and others to download or send e-mail
Jump into the social media craze by learning how to connect to the Twitter and Google+ networks  

Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition, delivers

Broad coverage of a variety of areas of development used in real-world applications today Powerful insights into current and best practices for the intermediate Python programmer Dozens of code examples, from quick snippets to full-fledged applications A variety of exercises at the end of every chapter to help hammer the concepts home

Genres: Programming, Technology, Reference

Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2012

Reviews

[Valeriy]

Cons:
- considered deprecated protocol NNTP
- in the chapter 9.3 there is a source code for search bot. It decomposed for two classes - Retriever() и Crawler(). Retriever is synchronous rather than asynchronous. It is impossible to make method Retriever.parse_links() as generator, because result returned the whole with the htmllib.HTMLParser
- according to Django:
-- Cons of Django tests:
--- in the tests used hardcoded URLs instead of reverse()
--- Factory Boy not used
-- not considered:
--- DRF
--- Django integration with React and/or Angular
-- Django 1.2. Therefore used:
--- `admin.autodiscover()`
--- `urlpatterns = pattern(`
--- `render_to_response()`
--- `syncdb`

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[Fotis Koutoulakis · Rating 4 out of 5]

First of all, I want to say that this was one of my favorite Python books I have ever read. The book itself is broken into 3 main parts, with the first one having some introductory (but very nice and relatively thorough as introductory) material on some general programming tasks in Python (multithreaded programming, network programming, regular expressions, gui programming) and then the second part of the book is more geared towards web development in general.

What I really liked about this approach is that you can both read this book in a linear fashion, and pick specific chapters that interest you in the time being and read them (in a reference manner). The second part of the book also provided a very good introduction into the whole web development in Python ecosystem, in a very bottom up approach, first showing you how you would make an application that speaks with a web server, why you would want to do that, how to do that (CGI), what it's inneficiencies are, what the next step is (FastCGI, or server plugins such as mod_python), what WSGI, why we need, what frameworks are (having a whole chapter dedicated as a basic introduction to Django), why you would want to use them, etc.

I also liked that every chapter had a set of exercises, so that you could practice everything that was said earlier in the chapter. This isn't something you see in many programming books, and I liked that instead of a quick and dirty introduction, and then getting to the next chapter, the book offered a training ground for you to practice your newfound skills.

An excellent book in my opinion.

[Jascha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Talks about many subject, but nothing detailed. Just like a quick overview of what's pytrendy.