- Paperback: 648 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 2 edition (12 Nov 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321680561
- ISBN-13: 978-0321680563
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 18.1 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
-
Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
406,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #87 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming > Languages > Python
- See Complete Table of Contents
 Trade In this Item for up to £11.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (Developer's Library) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £11.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
“…Fulfills the immediate market need for those developers seeking to learn this latest evolutionary version of the Python lineage in a succinct, well-written package.”
–Mike Riley, Contributing Editor for Dr. Dobb’s
“Beyond the introduction to programming in Python 3 in the first chapter, if you progress through the first six chapters in sequence, you’ll be well on your way to taking off with using Python independently.”
–James Pyles, Technical Writer and Author of the blog “A Million Chimpanzees”
“…A key recommendation for any serious computer library strong in web programming languages.”
–Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review
“Summerfield’s book is an excellent source to start learning Python 3.”
–Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews
Product Description
A Fully Revised Edition Featuring New Material on Coroutines, Debugging, Testing, Parsing, String Formatting, and More
Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3’s features and idioms. Programming in Python 3, Second Edition, brings together all the knowledge you need to write any program, use any standard or third-party Python 3 library, and create new library modules of your own.
Summerfield draws on his many years of Python experience to share deep insights into Python 3 development you won’t find anywhere else. He begins by illuminating Python’s “beautiful heart”: the eight key elements of Python you need to write robust, high-performance programs. Building on these core elements, he introduces new topics designed to strengthen your practical expertise–one concept and hands-on example at a time. Coverage includes
- Developing in Python using procedural, objectoriented, and functional programming paradigms
- Creating custom packages and modules
- Writing and reading binary, text, and XML files, including optional compression, random access, and text and XML parsing
- Leveraging advanced data types, collections, control structures, and functions
- Spreading program workloads across multiple processes and threads
- Programming SQL databases and key—value DBM files
- Debugging techniques–and using Test Driven Development to avoid bugs in the first place
- Utilizing Python’s regular expression mini-language and module
- Parsing techniques, including how to use the third-party PyParsing and PLY modules
- Building usable, efficient, GUI-based applications
- Advanced programming techniques, including generators, function and class decorators, context managers, descriptors, abstract base classes, metaclasses, coroutines, and more
Programming in Python 3, Second Edition, serves as both tutorial and language reference. It assumes some prior programming experience, and it is accompanied by extensive downloadable example code–all of it tested with Python 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As other reviewers have noted this book takes the same approach as Lutz (Learning Python). It does a much better job at providing a reference for Python development than it does at introducing Python programming to novices. As long as that is what you are looking for go for it.
Beginning Python (Norton) is better if you are looking for an introduction.
Beginning Python (Norton) is better if you are looking for an introduction.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The books doesn't show any change from 2.x to 3.x, which is a really poor thing since there are many programmers interested to see what are the differences. Very few (and messy) examples. The most of methods are just listed but nothing else is said about them.
Really a poor effort.
Really a poor effort.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
14 reviews
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
A Thorough Introduction to Python
29 Aug 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Mark Summerfield's text: "Programming in Python 3" is a very good introduction to the Python programming language for people with prior programming experiance in another language. I came to Python from MatLab and prior to that, C and Fortan. So I'm pleased with the book and find myself refering back to it quite often. Having said that, this is not a "For Dummies" type book. Familiarity with with directory structure, file handling, and command prompt (console) operation is assumed.
The book covers all of the built in types and programming constructs of the Python language. It also introduces some of the useful (batteries included) standard library functinality along with details for working with modules and packages.
Finally, as I'm working my way into the middle of the book, I'm finding that it's a good introduction to object-oriented (OO) programming concepts and techniques in the clean syntax of the Python language. The OO concepts are not obfuscated by a language that is too criptic or too messy. Since this is about where I'm at on my own learning curve, the book is proving quite useful.
The book covers all of the built in types and programming constructs of the Python language. It also introduces some of the useful (batteries included) standard library functinality along with details for working with modules and packages.
Finally, as I'm working my way into the middle of the book, I'm finding that it's a good introduction to object-oriented (OO) programming concepts and techniques in the clean syntax of the Python language. The OO concepts are not obfuscated by a language that is too criptic or too messy. Since this is about where I'm at on my own learning curve, the book is proving quite useful.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Put Your Seatbelt On
5 Sep 2010
Format:Paperback
This is a great book that covers Python 3 in a very orderly and concise manner. Readers are quickly introduced to the power of the language in the first 2 chapters, then each of the topics are covered in a more in depth way later in the book. This, however, is why I gave it only 4 stars. These beginning chapters may feel intimidating to some as the may feel as though they have been dropped in the deep end of the pool. More complex concepts like short-circuit logic are given but a few lines of explanation where a more detailed analysis may be warranted. All that said, it is the book I chose as the text for the python course I teach at the college level. I have limited time to get the students up and running, and this book surely does that. It also is a good stand alone reference that many of my students have chosen to keep on their bookshelves rather than return to the bookstore at the end of the semester. In short, it is concise, fast-paced, and in depth - covering enough of the language that the reader can come out the end feeling like they have a fairly good grasp of the language, concepts, and "pythonic thinking."
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Good book, weak exercises
24 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As others have noted, this is a fast paced book which covers Python 3 very well. The only reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the exercises are not very useful. They almost all consist of minor modifications to a program which has been discussed in the text. This is not enough to learn the language. One must also write programs from scratch, or at least make major changes to existing programs.
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
