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Learn Python Programming, 3rd edition - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801815093
Pages 554 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
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Heinrich Kruger Heinrich Kruger
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. A Gentle Introduction to Python 2. Built-In Data Types 3. Conditionals and Iteration 4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code 5. Comprehensions and Generators 6. OOP, Decorators, and Iterators 7. Exceptions and Context Managers 8. Files and Data Persistence 9. Cryptography and Tokens 10. Testing 11. Debugging and Profiling 12. GUIs and Scripting 13. Data Science in Brief 14. Introduction to API Development 15. Packaging Python Applications 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

How is Python code organized?

Let's talk a little bit about how Python code is organized. In this section, we will start to enter the proverbial rabbit hole and introduce more technical names and concepts.

Starting with the basics, how is Python code organized? Of course, you write your code into files. When you save a file with the extension .py, that file is said to be a Python module.

If you are on Windows or macOS, which typically hide file extensions from the user, we recommend that you change the configuration so that you can see the complete names of the files. This is not strictly a requirement, only a suggestion that may come in handy when discerning files from each other.

It would be impractical to save all the code that it is required for software to work within one single file. That solution works for scripts, which are usually not longer than a few hundred lines (and often they are shorter than that).

A complete Python application can...

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