Fluent Python

Don’t waste time bending Python to fit patterns you’ve learned in other languages. Python’s simplicity allows you to turn out to be productive quickly, but steadily this means you don’t seem to be the use of everything the language has to offer. With the updated edition of this hands-on guide, you can discover ways to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging its best ideas.

Discover and apply idiomatic Python 3 features beyond your past experience. Creator Luciano Ramalho guides you through Python’s core language features and libraries and teaches you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable.

Complete with major updates right through, this new edition features five parts that work as five short books within the book:

• Data structures: Sequences, dicts, sets, Unicode, and data classes
• Functions as objects: First-class functions, related design patterns, and type hints in function declarations
• Object-oriented idioms: Composition, inheritance, mixins, interfaces, operator overloading, protocols, and more static types
• Control waft: Context managers, generators, coroutines, async/await, and thread/process pools
• Metaprogramming: Properties, attribute descriptors, class decorators, and new class metaprogramming hooks that replace or simplify metaclasses