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Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition

You're reading from Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition Master Python by learning the best coding practices and advanced programming concepts

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071109

Length 630 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (3):

Michał Jaworski

Tarek Ziade

Tarek Ziadé

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Current Status of Python

2. Modern Python Development Environments

3. New Things in Python

4. Python in Comparison with Other Languages

5. Interfaces, Patterns, and Modularity FREE CHAPTER

6. Concurrency

7. Event-Driven Programming

8. Elements of Metaprogramming

9. Bridging Python with C and C++

10. Testing and Quality Automation

11. Packaging and Distributing Python Code

12. Observing Application Behavior and Performance

13. Code Optimization

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

15. Index

Functional programming

One of the great things about programming in Python is that you are never constrained to a single way of thinking about your programs. There are always various ways to solve a given problem, and sometimes the best one requires an approach that is slightly different from the one that would be the most obvious. Sometimes, this approach requires the use of declarative programming. Fortunately, Python, with its rich syntax and large standard library, offers features of functional programming, and functional programming is one of the main paradigms of declarative programming.

Functional programming is a paradigm where the program flow is achieved mainly through the evaluation of (mathematical) functions rather than through a series of steps that change the state of the program. Purely functional programs avoid the changing of state (side effects) and the use of mutable data structures.

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Authors (3)

Tarek Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé is a Software Engineer, located in Burgundy, France. He works at Elastic, building tools for developers. Before Elastic, he worked at Mozilla for 10 years. Tarek founded a French Python User group called Afpy. He has written several articles on the Python programming language for various magazines and also a few books in French and English.

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Ziadé

Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé is a Software Engineer, located in Burgundy, France. He works at Elastic, building tools for developers. Before Elastic, he worked at Mozilla for 10 years. Tarek founded a French Python User group called Afpy. He has written several articles on the Python programming language for various magazines and also a few books in French and English.

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