Python Essentials

Steven F. Lott

Jun 2015 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

The book was written in a clar concise fashion with copious examples shown throughout the book.

About the author

Steven F. Lott has been programming since the 70s, when computers were large, expensive, and rare. As a contract software developer and architect, he has worked on hundreds of projects, from very small to very large. He's been using Python to solve business problems for over 10 years. He's particularly adept at struggling with thorny data representation problems. He has also authored Mastering Object-oriented Python by Packt Publishing. He is currently a technomad who lives in various places on the east coast of the US. His technology blog can be found at http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com.