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Python in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

Alex Martelli

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Python was recently ranked as today's most popular programming language on the TIOBE index, thanks to its broad applicability to design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance. With this updated fourth edition, you'll learn how to get the most out of Python, whether you're a professional programmer or someone who needs this language to solve problems in a particular field.Carefully curated by recognized experts in Python, this new edition focuses on version 3.10, bringing this seminal work on the Python language fully up to date on five version releases, including preview coverage of upcoming 3.11 features.This handy guide will help you:Learn how Python represents data and program as objectsUnderstand the value and uses of type annotationsExamine which language features appeared in which recent versionsDiscover how to use modern Python idiomaticallyLearn ways to structure Python projects appropriatelyUnderstand how to debug Python code

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Python was recently ranked as today's most popular programming language on the TIOBE index, thanks to its broad applicability to design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance. With this updated fourth edition, you'll learn how to get the most out of Python, whether you're a professional programmer or someone who needs this language to solve problems in a particular field.Carefully curated by recognized experts in Python, this new edition focuses on version 3.10, bringing this seminal work on the Python language fully up to date on five version releases, including preview coverage of upcoming 3.11 features.This handy guide will help you:Learn how Python represents data and program as objectsUnderstand the value and uses of type annotationsExamine which language features appeared in which recent versionsDiscover how to use modern Python idiomaticallyLearn ways to structure Python projects appropriatelyUnderstand how to debug Python code

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Python was recently ranked as today's most popular programming language on the TIOBE index, thanks to its broad applicability to design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance. With this updated fourth edition, you'll learn how to get the most out of Python, whether you're a professional programmer or someone who needs this language to solve problems in a particular field.Carefully curated by recognized experts in Python, this new edition focuses on version 3.10, bringing this seminal work on the Python language fully up to date on five version releases, including preview coverage of upcoming 3.11 features.This handy guide will help you:Learn how Python represents data and program as objectsUnderstand the value and uses of type annotationsExamine which language features appeared in which recent versionsDiscover how to use modern Python idiomaticallyLearn ways to structure Python projects appropriatelyUnderstand how to debug Python code

Key concepts: Python (programming language), Computer science, Programming language, World Wide Web, Java

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