This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Master the Powerful Python 3 Standard Library through Real Code Examples “The genius of Doug’s approach is that with 15 minutes per week, any motivated programmer can learn the Python Standard Library. Doug’s guided tour will help you flip the switch to fully power-up Python’s batteries.” –Raymond Hettinger, Distinguished Python Core Developer The Python 3 Standard Library contains hundreds of modules for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet–all extensively tested and ready to jump-start application development. Now, Python expert Doug Hellmann introduces every major area of the Python 3.x library through concise source code and output examples. Hellmann’s examples fully demonstrate each feature and are designed for easy learning and reuse. You’ll find practical code for working with text, data structures, algorithms, dates/times, math, the file system, persistence, data exchange, compression, archiving, crypto, processes/threads, networking, Internet capabilities, email, developer and language tools, the runtime, packages, and more. Each section fully covers one module, with links to additional resources, making this book an ideal tutorial and reference. The Python 3 Standard Library by Example introduces Python 3.x’s new libraries, significant functionality changes, and new layout and naming conventions. Hellmann also provides expert porting guidance for moving code from 2.x Python standard library modules to their Python 3.x equivalents. Manipulate text with string, textwrap, re (regular expressions), and difflib Use data structures: enum, collections, array, heapq, queue, struct, copy, and more Implement algorithms elegantly and concisely with functools, itertools, and contextlib Handle dates/times and advanced mathematical tasks Archive and data compression Understand data exchange and persistence, including json, dbm, and sqlite Sign and verify messages cryptographically Manage concurrent operations with processes and threads Test, debug, compile, profile, language, import, and package tools Control interaction at runtime with interpreters or the environment

Provides information on the Python 2.7 library offering code and output examples for working with such tasks as text, data types, algorithms, math, file systems, networking, XML, email, and runtime.

CD-ROM contains: programming examples from the book and a demo of the PythonWorks IDE.

Build optimized applications in Python by smartly implementing the standard library Key Features Strategic recipes for effective application development in Python Techniques to create GUIs and implement security through cryptography Best practices for developing readily scalable, production-ready applications Book Description The Python 3 Standard Library is a vast array of modules that you can use for developing various kinds of applications. It contains an exhaustive list of libraries, and this book will help you choose the best one to address specific programming problems in Python. The Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook begins with recipes on containers and data structures and guides you in performing effective text management in Python. You will find Python recipes for command-line operations, networking, filesystems and directories, and concurrent execution. You will learn about Python security essentials in Python and get to grips with various development tools for debugging, benchmarking, inspection, error reporting, and tracing. The book includes recipes to help you create graphical user interfaces for your application. You will learn to work with multimedia components and perform mathematical operations on date and time. The recipes will also show you how to deploy different searching and sorting algorithms on your data. By the end of the book, you will have acquired the skills needed to write clean code in Python and develop applications that meet your needs. What you will learn Store multiple values per key in associative containers Create interactive character-based user interfaces Work with native time and display data for your time zone Read/write SGML family languages, both as a SAX and DOM parser to meet file sizes and other requirements Group equivalent items using itertools and sorted features together Use partials to create unary functions out of multi-argument functions Implement hashing algorithms to store passwords in a safe way Who this book is for If you are a developer who wants to write highly responsive, manageable, scalable, and resilient code in Python, this book is for you. Prior programming knowledge in Python will help you make the most out of the book.

Winner of the 2014 Jolt Award for "Best Book" "Whether you are an experienced programmer or are starting your career, Python in Practice is full of valuable advice and example to help you improve your craft by thinking about problems from different perspectives, introducing tools, and detailing techniques to create more effective solutions." --Doug Hellmann, Senior Developer, DreamHost If you're an experienced Python programmer, Python in Practice will help you improve the quality, reliability, speed, maintainability, and usability of all your Python programs. Mark Summerfield focuses on four key themes: design patterns for coding elegance, faster processing through concurrency and compiled Python (Cython), high-level networking, and graphics. He identifies well-proven design patterns that are useful in Python, illuminates them with expert-quality code, and explains why some object-oriented design patterns are irrelevant to Python. He also explodes several counterproductive myths about Python programming--showing, for example, how Python can take full advantage of multicore hardware. All examples, including three complete case studies, have been tested with Python 3.3 (and, where possible, Python 3.2 and 3.1) and crafted to maintain compatibility with future Python 3.x versions. All code has been tested on Linux, and most code has also been tested on OS X and Windows. All code may be downloaded at www.qtrac.eu/pipbook.html. Coverage includes Leveraging Python's most effective creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns Supporting concurrency with Python's multiprocessing, threading, and concurrent.futures modules Avoiding concurrency problems using thread-safe queues and futures rather than fragile locks Simplifying networking with high-level modules, including xmlrpclib and RPyC Accelerating Python code with Cython, C-based Python modules, profiling, and other techniques Creating modern-looking GUI applications with Tkinter Leveraging today's powerful graphics hardware via the OpenGL API using pyglet and PyOpenGL

Learn how to program with Python from beginning to end. This book is for beginners who want to get up to speed quickly and become intermediate programmers fast!

An extremely handy programmer's standard library reference that is as durable as it is portable. This 6 page laminated guide includes essential script modules used by developers of all skill levels to simplify the process of programming in Python. This guide is all script and is organized to find needed script quickly. As with QuickStudy reference on any subject, with continued reference, the format lends itself to memorization. Beginning students or seasoned programmers will find this tool a perfect go-to for the at-a-glance script answer and memory jog you might need. At this price and for the bank of script included it's an easy add to your programmer's toolbox. 6 page laminated guide includes: General Functionality Date/Time Processing System and Computer Controls OS Module Classes of the OS Module Pathlib Module Threading Module Debugging Functionality PDB Module Debugging for the PDB Module Mathematic and Numeric Operations Math Module Random Module Iterable and Iterator Operations Collections Module Classes of the Collections Module Itertools Module Web and Data Transfer Operations HTML Parser Module HTML Module Audio Manipulation