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The Python Workshop Second Edition

You're reading from   The Python Workshop Second Edition Write Python code to solve challenging real-world problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610619
Length 600 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mario Corchero Jiménez Mario Corchero Jiménez
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Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Corey Wade Corey Wade
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Graham Lee Graham Lee
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Dr. Lau Cher Han Dr. Lau Cher Han
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Python Fundamentals – Math, Strings, Conditionals, and Loops 2. Chapter 2: Python Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Executing Python – Programs, Algorithms, and Functions 4. Chapter 4: Extending Python, Files, Errors, and Graphs 5. Chapter 5: Constructing Python – Classes and Methods 6. Chapter 6: The Standard Library 7. Chapter 7: Becoming Pythonic 8. Chapter 8: Software Development 9. Chapter 9: Practical Python – Advanced Topics 10. Chapter 10: Data Analytics with pandas and NumPy 11. Chapter 11: Machine Learning 12. Chapter 12: Deep Learning with Python 13. Chapter 13: The Evolution of Python – Discovering New Python Features 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating documentation the easy way

A critical part of all software that is distributed across the world is documentation. Documentation allows the users of your code to be able to understand how to call the different functions that we provide without having to read the code. There are multiple levels of documentation that you are going to explore in this topic. You will see how to write documentation that can be consumed in the console and on the web. In the purpose and size of our project, you should consider how broad your documentation should be and what kind of instructions and information it should contain.

Using docstrings

In Python, documentation is part of the language. When you declare a function, you can use docstrings to document its interface and behavior. Docstrings can be created by having a triple-quoted string block just after the function signature. This content is not only available to the reader but also to the user of the application programming interface...

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