Python Essentials
| By: | Steven F. Lott |
| Publisher: | Packt Publishing |
| Print ISBN: | 9781784390341 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781784398149 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Book Description
This book is designed for Python 2 developers who want to get to grips with Python 3 in a short period of time. It covers the key features of Python, assuming you are familiar with the fundamentals of Python 2.What you will learn
- Use Python interactively and master the art of writing efficient Python scripts
- Learn techniques for working with string data, including how to use regular expressions to parse strings
- Get to know how the shortcircuit and ifelse logic operators work
- Explore mutable data structures including list, set, and dict
- Define functions with positional and optional parameters, and learn to use keyword argument values when calling a function
- Write generator functions, generator expressions, and comprehensions
- Master the use of exceptions for handling errors and other unexpected conditions
- Understand the importance of working with files, context manager, and the with statement