Description
Summary

This third revision of Manning’s popular The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp updated introduction to the elegant Python programming language and its famously easy-to-read syntax. Written for programmers new to Python, this latest edition includes new exercises throughout. It covers features common to other languages concisely, while introducing Python’s comprehensive standard functions library and unique features in detail.

Foreword by Nicholas Tollervey, Python Software Foundation.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Initially Guido van Rossum’s 1989 holiday project, Python has grown into an amazing computer language. It’s a joy to learn and read, and powerful enough to handle everything from low-level system resources to advanced applications like deep learning. Elegantly simple and complete, it also boasts a massive ecosystem of libraries and frameworks. Python programmers are in high demand/mdash;you can’t afford not to be fluent!

About the Book

The Quick Python Book, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to the Python language by a Python authority, Naomi Ceder. With the personal touch of a skilled teacher, she beautifully balances details of the language with the insights and advice you need to handle any task. Extensive, relevant examples and learn-by-doing exercises help you master each important concept the first time through. Whether you’re scraping websites or playing around with nested tuples, you’ll appreciate this book’s clarity, focus, and attention to detail.

What’s Inside

Clear coverage of Python 3
Core libraries, packages, and tools
In-depth exercises
Five new data science-related chapters
About the Reader

Written for readers familiar with programming concepts—no Python experience assumed.

About the Author

Naomi Ceder is chair of the Python Software Foundation. She has been learning, using, and teaching Python since 2001.

Table of Contents

PART 1 – STARTING OUT

About Python
Getting started
The Quick Python overview
PART 2 – THE ESSENTIALS

The absolute basics
Lists, tuples, and sets
Strings
Dictionaries
Control flow
Functions
Modules and scoping rules
Python programs
Using the filesystem
Reading and writing files
Exceptions
PART 3 – ADVANCED LANGUAGE FEATURES

Classes and object-oriented programming
Regular expressions
Data types as objects
Packages
Using Python libraries
PART 4 – WORKING WITH DATA

Basic file wrangling
Processing data files
Data over the network
Saving data
Exploring data