Expert Python Programming: Edition 2

Michal Jaworski · Tarek Ziade

May 2016 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Become an ace Python programmer by learning best coding practices and advance-level concepts with Python 3.5About This BookBased on the latest stable version of Python (version 3.5)Creating well manageable code that will run in various environments with different sets of dependenciesPacked with advanced concepts and best practices to write efficient Python codeWho This Book Is For

The book would appeal to web developers and Python programmers who want to start using version 3.5 and write code efficiently. Basic knowledge of Python programming is expected.

What You Will LearnConventions and best practices that are widely adopted in the python communityPackage python code effectively for community and production useEasy and lightweight ways to automate code deployment on remote systemsImprove your code's quality, reliability, and performanceWrite concurrent code in pythonExtend python with code written in different languagesIn Detail

Python is a dynamic programming language, used in a wide range of domains by programmers who find it simple, yet powerful. Even if you find writing Python code easy, writing code that is efficient and easy to maintain and reuse is a challenge.

The focus of the book is to familiarize you with common conventions, best practices, useful tools and standards used by python professionals on a daily basis when working with code.

You will begin with knowing new features in Python 3.5 and quick tricks for improving productivity. Next, you will learn advanced and useful python syntax elements brought to this new version. Using advanced object-oriented concepts and mechanisms available in python, you will learn different approaches to implement metaprogramming. You will learn to choose good names, write packages, and create standalone executables easily.

You will also be using some powerful tools such as buildout and vitualenv to release and deploy the code on remote servers for production use. Moving on, you will learn to effectively create Python extensions with C, C++, cython, and pyrex. The important factors while writing code such as code management tools, writing clear documentation, and test-driven development are also covered.

You will now dive deeper to make your code efficient with general rules of optimization, strategies for finding bottlenecks, and selected tools for application optimization.

By the end of the book, you will be an expert in writing efficient and maintainable code.

Style and approach

An easy-to-follow guide that covers industry followed best practices in Python programming

About the author

Michal Jaworski has 7 years of experience in Python. He is also the creator of graceful, which is a REST framework built on top of falcon. He has been in various roles at different companies: from an ordinary full-stack developer through software architect to VP of engineering in a fast-paced start-up company. He is currently a lead backend engineer in TV Store team at Opera Software. He is highly experienced in designing high-performance distributed services. He is also an active contributor to some of the popular Python open source projects.

Tarek Ziade is an engineering manager at Mozilla, working with a team specialized in building web services in Python at scale for Firefox. He's contributed to the Python packaging effort and has worked with a lot of different Python web frameworks since Zope in the early days. Tarek has also created Afpy, the French Python User Group, and has written two books on Python in French. He has delivered numerous talks and tutorials in French at international events such as Solutions Linux, PyCon, OSCON, and EuroPython.