
Learning Python
Mark Lutz(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. June 2013
Book
1591 pages
978-1-4493-5573-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Get a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the core Python language with this hands-on book. Based on author Mark Lutz's popular training course, this updated fifth edition will help you quickly write efficient, high-quality code with Python. It's an ideal way to begin, whether you're new to programming or a professional developer versed in other languages.
Complete with quizzes, exercises, and helpful illustrations, this easy-to-follow, self-paced tutorial gets you started with both Python 2.7 and 3.3- the latest releases in the 3.X and 2.X lines-plus all other releases in common use today. You'll also learn some advanced language features that recently have become more common in Python code.
* Explore Python's major built-in object types such as numbers, lists, and dictionaries
* Create and process objects with Python statements, and learn Python's general syntax model
* Use functions to avoid code redundancy and package code for reuse
* Organize statements, functions, and other tools into larger components with modules
* Dive into classes: Python's object-oriented programming tool for structuring code
* Write large programs with Python's exception-handling model and development tools
* Learn advanced Python tools, including decorators, descriptors, metaclasses, and Unicode processing
Complete with quizzes, exercises, and helpful illustrations, this easy-to-follow, self-paced tutorial gets you started with both Python 2.7 and 3.3- the latest releases in the 3.X and 2.X lines-plus all other releases in common use today. You'll also learn some advanced language features that recently have become more common in Python code.
* Explore Python's major built-in object types such as numbers, lists, and dictionaries
* Create and process objects with Python statements, and learn Python's general syntax model
* Use functions to avoid code redundancy and package code for reuse
* Organize statements, functions, and other tools into larger components with modules
* Dive into classes: Python's object-oriented programming tool for structuring code
* Write large programs with Python's exception-handling model and development tools
* Learn advanced Python tools, including decorators, descriptors, metaclasses, and Unicode processing
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Product info
PB
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations (black and white)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 66 mm
Weight
2475 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4493-5573-9 (9781449355739)
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Person
Mark Lutz 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 is also the author of O'Reilly's Programming Python and Python Pocket Reference, and Learning Python (all in 4th Editions). Mark can be reached on the web at www.rmi.net/~lutz.