Python Essentials

by Steven F. Lott

Python Essentials provides a vital tour of the most critical features of Python. Starting with setup and installation, you will soon dive into exploring built-in-library types, Python's rich collection of operators and built-in functions, variables, assignment and scoping rules.

From this foundation, you will explore functions, a crucial aspect of any programming language, including considerable sophistication in defining parameters to a function and providing argument values. Explore advanced functional programming using generator expressions, comprehensions, and generator functions. Handle file input and output using web services and context managers, exception handling and explore wider, popular frameworks.

Through this concise and practical guide, you will explore all you need to know to leverage this powerful, and industry-standard, programming language.

Genres: Programming

300 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2015

Reviews

[Pradheap · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good material for those coming from other languages. A chapter about concurrency could make the book a perfect beginner's guide. This is my first ever book on Python. Though, I've been doing python programming for some time now.

[Евгений Прокопчик · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too shallow for professional read. Lots of white spaces between pages.

[Benjamin]

Straightforward, clear, and fast -- a little too clean -- make sure that you do the exercises to slow your progress down!