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I had pre-ordered this book, as the author's website and blogs have always been excellent in their ability to give concise examples for the usage of Python's extensive standard library. I have now had the book for a few days and I am very pleased with it.
I sometimes wonder when I will buy my last physical book, as digital versions are becoming standard. This book, however, is a great example of some of the great computer books that lived most of their lives right next to my computer: a well-organized reference manual with a great index and table of contents (you can view these on the Amazon page for this title).
I teach Python in my high school Computer Science classes, and have always loved the fact that I can write Python code quickly and successfully for so many tasks that come up when teaching. Learning Python is one thing--being able to utilize the standard library in "Pythonic" ways is another skill entirely. The core language is perfect for introducing students to real programming--the instructor can choose to introduce many of the functional programming aspects of Python after students have become comfortable with the traditional imperative approach (gradually leading to an understanding of abstraction in a natural way). But it won't be long and students will start discovering just how easy it is to utilize the standard library for many of the tasks that are coded from scratch in books that merely use Python to teach the fundamentals of Computer Science and Programming. This book is an excellent reference to have for those students that want to use Python for tasks outside of the usual core language programming challenges that they are learning in class. I have students who have used Python for tasks that I had simply never though of--like my student that wrote a forum bot to alert him via email whenever new posts on our phpBB forum appeared. Other students have created chat rooms and file servers with amazing efficiency using Python.
I highly recommend this book for anyone that 1) wants to learn how to utilize the "batteries included" in Python, 2) need a handy guide for working outside the core language. As an educator, I love how easy it is to simply pick up this book, open to a random spot, and quickly get ideas for examples to use in class that will help students see the amazing potential Python has. Also, although the standard library has excellent documentation, the vast majority of students simply want to see examples and then try altering them for their own purposes. This book provides those examples that are simply not collected anywhere else in such an organized and accessible format.
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| Title | Effective Python | Effective Python LiveLessons | Python Essential Reference | The Python Standard Library by Example | Modern Python LiveLessons: Big Ideas and Little Code in Python |
| Author | Brett Slatkin | Brett Slatkin | David Beazley | Doug Hellmann | Raymond Hettinger |
| User Experience Level | Intermediate and advanced level Python programmers | Intermediate and advanced level Python programmers | Assumes that the reader has prior programming experience with Python or another language such as C or Java | Intermediate-level Python programmers | Intermediate-level Python programmers |
| What You Will Learn | How to harness Python’s full power to write exceptionally robust and well-performing code. | The Pythonic way of writing programs, building on a fundamental understanding of Python to help you write programs more effectively. | The core Python language, and the most essential parts of the Python library. | How to utilize the Python 3.x library to jump-start application development. | How to elegantly code powerful solutions succinctly and efficiently with Python. |
| Core Concept | Using the concise, scenario-driven style pioneered in Scott Meyers’ best-selling Effective C++, Brett Slatkin brings together 59 Python best practices, tips, and shortcuts, and explains them with realistic code examples. | Hands-on demonstration of a broad but related set of items designed to provide concise and specific guidance on what to do and what to avoid when writing programs using Python. | Accurate and concise reference to the most important parts of Python. | Presents selected examples from the hundereds of modules in the Python standard linrary demonstrating how to use the most commonly used features of the modules that support Python’s 'batteries included' slogan. | Provides developers with an approach to programming in Python that expresses big ideas succinctly, with the minimum of code, allowing the business logic to shine through. |
| Key Topics Covered | Best practices for writing functions that clarify intention, promote reuse, and avoid bugs; Expressing behaviors with classes and objects; Avoid pitfalls with metaclasses and dynamic attributes; Efficient approaches to concurrency and parallelism; Techniques and idioms for using Python’s built-in modules; Tools and best practices for collaborative development | Methods; Comprehensions and generators; Functions and classes; Concurrency and parallelism; How to make programs more robust | Language features, libraries, and modules; Generators, coroutines, closures, metaclasses, and decorators; How to use Python 2.6’s forward compatibility mode to evaluate code for Python 3 compatibility; Low-level system and networking library modules | Python 3.x’s new libraries, significant functionality changes, and new layout and naming conventions. Expert porting guidance for moving code from 2.x Python standard library modules to their Python 3.x equivalents. | Newer features from Python 3.6, including f-strings and type hinting; ETL (extract-transform-load) techniques to prepare real-world data for analysis; How to improve code reliability |
| Python Versions Covered | 3.x and 2.x | Python 3 | Python 2.6 and 3.0. Omits features of Python 2 that have been removed from Python 3. Does not features of Python 3 that have not been back-ported. | Python 3 In an effort to maintain clear and concise descriptions for each example, the differences between Python 2 and 3 are not highlighted in each chapter. | Python 3.6 |
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Customers find this Python library book informative and perfect for introducing students to real programming, with one customer noting it provides examples for numerous Python modules. The book is well-organized as a reference manual, and customers appreciate its ease of use, with one mentioning it explains complicated units clearly.
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11 customers mention informative, 10 positive, 1 negative
Perfect reference book for Python! Great for when you need to quickly reference something that's slipped your mind....Read more
A good reference and summary of the python standard library. Explains some complicated units clearly and succinctly.Read more
more for advanced pythoneers but great stuff. you'll find many good examples and great chapters on reg ex . Just lots of goodiesRead more
Informative, to the point. Just how I like my examples in books.Read more
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After buying about a dozen books on Python, this is by far the best book I've layed eyes on....Read more
...Over all it is a great book to have if you're an intermediate(and up) python developer.Read more
Good book but bad printing quality. Some parts are barely readable.Read more
more for advanced pythoneers but great stuff. you'll find many good examples and great chapters on reg ex . Just lots of goodiesRead more
7 customers mention ease of use, 6 positive, 1 negative
Long term utility. Easy lookup. One of the best python references, for basics.Read more
...As an educator, I love how easy it is to simply pick up this book, open to a random spot, and quickly get ideas for examples to use in class that...Read more
...This book explains the standard library in a way that is simpler than the standard docs. The chapters are concise and full of examples....Read more
...It's a toolbox full of useful code that you can start to use right now. Can't ask for more than that.Read more
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- daveReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2012
Highly recommended. Buy it now!
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Ottimo reference per lo sviluppo in Python
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obsolète quand on programme déjà en python 3
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