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Modern Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Cookbook 133 recipes to develop flawless and expressive programs in Python 3.8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207455
Length 822 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples 2. Statements and Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Function Definitions 4. Built-In Data Structures Part 1: Lists and Sets 5. Built-In Data Structures Part 2: Dictionaries 6. User Inputs and Outputs 7. Basics of Classes and Objects 8. More Advanced Class Design 9. Functional Programming Features 10. Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout 11. Testing 12. Web Services 13. Application Integration: Configuration 14. Application Integration: Combination 15. Statistical Programming and Linear Regression 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Controlling complex sequences of steps

In the Combining two applications into one recipe earlier in this chapter, we looked at ways to combine multiple Python scripts into a single, longer, more complex operation. In the Wrapping and combining CLI applications and Wrapping a program and checking the output recipes earlier in this chapter, we looked at ways to use Python to wrap not-necessarily-Python executable programs.

We can combine these techniques to create even more flexible processing. We can create longer, more complex sequences of operations.

Getting ready

In the Designing scripts for composition recipe in Chapter 13, Application Integration: Configuration, we created an application that did some processing that led to the creation of a rather complex result. In the Using logging for control and audit output recipe in Chapter 13, Application Integration: Configuration, we looked at a second application that built on those results to create a sophisticated statistical...

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