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COVERS PYTHON 2 AND 3
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You’ll first learn how to start a project and tackle topics like versioning, coding style, and automated checks. Then you’ll look at how to define functions efficiently, pick the right data structures and libraries, build future-proof programs, package your software for distribution, and optimize your programs down to the bytecode. You’ll also learn how to:
• Create and use effective decorators and methods, including abstract, static, and class methods
• Employ Python for functional programming using generators, pure functions, and functional functions
• Extend flake8 to work with the abstract syntax tree (AST) to introduce more sophisticated automatic checks
• Apply dynamic performance analysis to identify bottlenecks in your code
• Work with relational databases and effectively manage and stream data with PostgreSQL
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julien Danjou is a principal software engineer at Red Hat and a contributor to OpenStack, the largest existing open source project written in Python. He has been a free software and open source hacker for the past 15 years.
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