Python Essential Reference (4th Edition)

Python crucial Reference is the definitive reference advisor to the Python programming language — the single authoritative guide that reliably untangles and explains either the middle Python language and the main crucial elements of the Python library.

Designed for the pro programmer, the booklet is concise, to the purpose, and hugely obtainable. it's also specific details at the Python library and plenty of complicated topics that isn't on hand in both the professional Python documentation or the other unmarried reference source.

 

Thoroughly up-to-date to mirror the numerous new programming language gains and library modules which have been brought in Python 2.6 and Python three, the fourth variation of Python crucial Reference is the definitive advisor for programmers who have to modernize present Python code or who're making plans an eventual migration to Python three. Programmers beginning a brand new Python undertaking will locate exact insurance of latest Python programming idioms.

 

This fourth version of Python crucial Reference beneficial properties a number of advancements, additions, and updates:

  • Coverage of latest language beneficial properties, libraries, and modules
  • Practical assurance of Python's extra complicated beneficial properties together with turbines, coroutines, closures, metaclasses, and decorators
  • Expanded assurance of library modules relating to concurrent programming together with threads, subprocesses, and the hot multiprocessing module
  • Up-to-the-minute assurance of ways to exploit Python 2.6’s ahead compatibility mode to judge code for Python three compatibility
  • Improved association for even swifter solutions and higher usability
  • Updates to mirror sleek Python programming type and idioms
  • Updated and more advantageous instance code
  • Deep assurance of low-level approach and networking library modules — together with concepts no longer lined within the ordinary documentation

 

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