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Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398781
Pages 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Dusty Phillips Dusty Phillips
Profile icon Dusty Phillips

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Python 3 Object-oriented Programming Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Introduction to the second edition
Preface
1. Object-oriented Design 2. Objects in Python 3. When Objects Are Alike 4. Expecting the Unexpected 5. When to Use Object-oriented Programming 6. Python Data Structures 7. Python Object-oriented Shortcuts 8. Strings and Serialization 9. The Iterator Pattern 10. Python Design Patterns I 11. Python Design Patterns II 12. Testing Object-oriented Programs 13. Concurrency Index

Exercises


If you haven't encountered the with statements and context managers before, I encourage you, as usual, to go through your old code and find all the places you were opening files, and make sure they are safely closed using the with statement. Look for places that you could write your own context managers as well. Ugly or repetitive try...finally clauses are a good place to start, but you may find them useful any time you need to do before and/or after tasks in context.

You've probably used many of the basic built-in functions before now. We covered several of them, but didn't go into a great deal of detail. Play with enumerate, zip, reversed, any and all, until you know you'll remember to use them when they are the right tool for the job. The enumerate function is especially important; because not using it results in some pretty ugly code.

Also explore some applications that pass functions around as callable objects, as well as using the __call__ method to make your own objects callable...

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