Programming Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming (Covers Python 3.X), 4th Edition
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Programming Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming (Covers Python 3.X), 4th Edition

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Programming Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming (Covers Python 3.X), 4th EditionIf you've mastered Python's fundamentals, you're ready to start using it to get real work done. Programming Python will show you how, with in depth tutorials on the language's primary application domains: system administration, GUIs, and the Web. You'll also explore how Python is used in databases, networking, front end scripting layers, text processing, and more. This book focuses on commonly used tools and libraries to give you a comprehensive

If you've mastered Python's fundamentals, you're ready to start using it to get real work done. Programming Python will show you how, with in-depth tutorials on the language's primary application domains: system administration, GUIs, and the Web. You'll also explore how Python is used in databases, networking, front-end scripting layers, text processing, and more. This book focuses on commonly used tools and libraries to give you a comprehensive understanding of Python’s many roles in practical, real-world programming.

You'll learn language syntax and programming techniques in a clear and concise manner, with lots of examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms. Completely updated for version 3.x, Programming Python also delves into the language as a software development tool, with many code examples scaled specifically for that purpose.

Topics include:

  • Quick Python tour: Build a simple demo that includes data representation, object-oriented programming, object persistence, GUIs, and website basics
     
  • System programming: Explore system interface tools and techniques for command-line scripting, processing files and folders, running programs in parallel, and more
     
  • GUI programming: Learn to use Python’s tkinter widget library
  • Internet programming: Access client-side network protocols and email tools, use CGI scripts, and learn website implementation techniques
     
  • More ways to apply Python: Implement data structures, parse text-based information, interface with databases, and extend and embed Python
About the Author
Mark Lutz is the author of Python’s foundational and best-selling texts, a former trainer with two decades experience teaching Python to newcomers, and one of the people responsible for the prominence that Python enjoys today.
Mark is the author of the three O’Reilly books Learning Python, Programming Python, and Python Pocket Reference, all currently in fourth or fifth editions. He has been using and promoting Python since version 0.X in 1992, started writing Python books in 1995, and began teaching Python classes in 1997. As of mid-2016, Mark has instructed 260 Python training sessions; taught roughly 4,000 students in live classes; and written 14 Python books that have sold over 550,000 units, span 11,000 published pages, cover Pythons 1.X through 3.X, and have been translated to at least a dozen languages.
Together, his two decades of Python efforts have helped to establish it as one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. In addition, Mark has been in the software field for over 30 years. He holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin where he explored implementations of the Prolog language, and over his career has worked as a professional software developer on compilers, programming tools, scripting systems, and assorted client/server and business applications.
is the world leader in Python training, the author of Python's earliest and best-selling texts, and a pioneering figure in the Python community since 1992. He has been a software developer for 25 years, and is the author of O'Reilly's Programming Python, 3rd Edition and Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition.

Table of Contents

1. The Beginning

Chapter 1 A Sneak Preview

2. System Programming

Chapter 2 System Tools

Chapter 3 Script Execution Context

Chapter 4 File and Directory Tools

Chapter 5 Parallel System Tools

Chapter 6 Complete System Programs

3. GUI Programming

Chapter 7 Graphical User Interfaces

Chapter 8 A tkinter Tour, Part 1

Chapter 9 A tkinter Tour, Part 2

Chapter 10 GUI Coding Techniques

Chapter 11 Complete GUI Programs

4. Internet Programming

Chapter 12 Network Scripting

Chapter 13 Client-Side Scripting

Chapter 14 The PyMailGUI Client

Chapter 15 Server-Side Scripting

Chapter 16 The PyMailCGI Server

5. Tools and Techniques

Chapter 17 Databases and Persistence

Chapter 18 Data Structures

Chapter 19 Text and Language

1. Chapter 20 Python/C Integration

6. The End

1. Chapter 21 Conclusion: Python and the Development Cycle

 

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