Serious Python: Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More

242 Pages·2019·4.72 MB·English

by  Julien Danjou

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Sharpen your Python skills as you dive deep into the
Python programming language with Serious Python.
Written for developers and experienced programmers,
Serious Python brings together more than 15 years of
Python experience to teach you how to avoid common
mistakes, write code more efficiently, and build better
programs in less time. You’ll cover a range of advanced
topics like multithreading and memoization, get advice
from experts on things like designing APIs and dealing
with databases, and learn Python internals to give you a
deeper understanding of the language itself.

You’ll first learn how to start a project and tackle
topics like versioning, coding style, and automated
checks. Then you’ll look at how to define functions
efficiently, pick the right data structures and libraries,
build future-proof programs, package your software
for distribution, and optimize your programs down to
the bytecode. You’ll also learn how to:

• Create and use effective decorators and methods,
including abstract, static, and class methods

• Employ Python for functional programming using
generators, pure functions, and functional functions

• Extend flake8 to work with the abstract syntax tree
(AST) to introduce more sophisticated automatic
checks

• Apply dynamic performance analysis to identify
bottlenecks in your code

• Work with relational databases and effectively
manage and stream data with PostgreSQL

Take your Python skills from good to great. Learn from
the experts and get seriously good at Python with
Serious Python!

A B O U T T H E A U T H O R

Julien Danjou is a principal software engineer at Red
Hat and a contributor to OpenStack, the largest existing
open source project written in Python. He has been a
free software and open source hacker for the past
15 years.

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SeriouS Python

SeriouS
Python

Black-Belt Advice on
Deployment, Scalability,
testing, and More

by Julien Danjou

San Francisco

SeriouS Python. Copyright © 2019 by Julien Danjou.

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ISBN-10: 1-59327-878-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-878-6

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