Powerful Python: Patterns and Strategies with Modern Python (Early Release)

✍ Scribed by Aaron Maxwell

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Once you've mastered the basics of Python, how do you skill up to the top 1%? How do you focus your learning time on topics that yield the most benefit for production engineering and data teams—without getting distracted by info of little real-world use? This book answers these questions and more. You'll focus on the Python first principles that act to accelerate everything else: the 5% of programming knowledge that makes the remaining 95% fall like dominos. It's also this knowledge that helps you become an exceptional Python programmer, fast.

✦ Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents (Not Yet Final)
Preface
Who This Book Is For
The Two Levels Of Learning
What You Will Learn
What’s Not Covered
Getting The Most Out Of This Book
1. Scaling With Generators
Iteration in Python
Generator Functions
Generator Patterns and Scalable Composability
Python is Filled With Iterators
The Iterator Protocol
2. Creating Collections with Comprehensions
List Comprehensions
Formatting For Readability (And More)
Multiple Sources and Filters
Comprehensions and Generators
Generator Expression or List Comprehension?
Dictionaries, Sets, and Tuples
3. Advanced Functions
Accepting & Passing Variable Arguments
Functions As Objects
Key Functions in Python
4. Decorators
The Basic Decorator
Data In Decorators
Decorators That Take Arguments
Class-based Decorators
Decorators For Classes
5. Exceptions and Errors
The Basic Idea
Exceptions Are Objects
Raising Exceptions
Catching And Re-raising
The Most Diabolical Python Anti-Pattern
6. Classes and Objects: Beyond The Basics
Properties
Properties and Refactoring
The Factory Patterns
Alternative Constructors: The Simple Factory
Dynamic Type: The Factory Method Pattern
The Observer Pattern
The Simple Observer
A Pythonic Refinement
Several Channels
Magic Methods
Shortcut: functools.total_ordering
Rebelliously Misusing Magic Methods
7. Automated Testing
What is Test-Driven Development?
Unit Tests And Simple Assertions
Fixtures And Common Test Setup
Asserting Exceptions
Using Subtests
Final Thoughts