Supercharged Python: Take Your Code to the Next Level

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Features

• Breaks advanced topics down to their essentials, illustrating them with simple examples and practical exercises
• Covers runtime efficiency, lambda functions, regex, binary operators, advanced data formatting, packages, Django, graphics, magic methods, binary files, and more
• Deepens your insight by illuminating design decisions and tricks behind each language feature
• Includes challenging projects to showcase Pythons power
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Description

If you’re ready to write better Python code and use more advanced features, Advanced Python Programming was written for you. Brian Overland and John Bennett distill advanced topics down to their essentials, illustrating them with simple examples and practical exercises. 
Building on Overland’s widely-praised approach in Python Without Fear, the authors start with short, simple examples designed for easy entry, and quickly ramp you up to creating useful utilities and games, and using Python to solve interesting puzzles. Everything you’ll need to know is patiently explained and clearly illustrated, and the authors illuminate the design decisions and tricks behind each language feature they cover. You’ll gain the in-depth understanding to successfully apply all these advanced features and techniques: 

• Coding for runtime efficiency
• Lambda functions (and when to use them)
• Managing versioning 
• Localization and Unicode
• Regular expressions
• Binary operators 
• Radix conversions 
• Data formatting, in depth
• Creating, building, and importing packages
• Using the Django web-development package
• Graphics programming
• Magic methods and advanced object orientation
• Reading and writing binary files, and more

Sample Content

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22 Python Tricks

Sample Pages

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Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Review of the Fundamentals
• Chapter 2: Advanced String Capabilities
• Chapter 3: Advanced List Capabilities
• Chapter 4: Shortcuts, Command Line, and Packages
• Chapter 5: Formatting Text Precisely
• Chapter 6: Regular Expressions, Part I
• Chapter 7: Regular Expressions, Part II
• Chapter 8: Text and Binary Files
• Chapter 9: Classes and Magic Methods
• Chapter 10: Decimal, Money, and Other Classes
• Chapter 11: The Random and Math Packages
• Chapter 12: The “numpy” (Numeric Python) Package
• Chapter 13: Advanced Uses of “numpy”
• Chapter 14: Multiple Modules and the RPN Example
• Chapter 15: Getting Financial Data off the Internet
• Appendix A Python Operator Precedence Table
• Appendix B Built-In Python Functions
• Appendix C Set Methods
• Appendix D Dictionary Methods
• Appendix E Statement Reference

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