This book is written for people who have learned the fundamentals of the language but want to take their skills to the next level. Authors Brian Overland and John Bennett cover topics including advanced list and string techniques; all the ways to handle text and binary files and financial applications. The book also covers advanced techniques for writing classes; generators and decorators; and how to master packages such as Numpy.

Author: Brian Overland and John Bennett
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: July 2019
Pages: 672
ISBN: 978-0135159941
Print: 0135159946
Kindle: B07T93J28B
Audience: Python developers
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Category: Python

• Use profilers and “magic methods” to code like a pro
• Harness the power of regular expressions to process text quickly with a single statement
• Take advantage of 22 coding shortcuts, along with performance tips, to save time and optimize your code
• Create really useful classes and objects, for games, simulations, money, mathematics, and more
• Use multiple modules to build powerful apps while avoiding the “gotchas”
• Import packages to dramatically speed up statistical operations—by as much as 100 times!
• Refer to the five-part language reference to look up fine points of the language

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