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The Python Workshop Second Edition - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610619
Pages 600 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (5):
Corey Wade Corey Wade
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Corey Wade, M.S. Mathematics, M.F.A. Writing & Consciousness, is the founder and director of Berkeley Coding Academy where he teaches Machine Learning and AI to teens from all over the world. Additionally, Corey chairs the Math Department at Berkeley Independent Study where he has received multiple grants to run after-school coding programs to help bridge the tech skills gap. Additional experiences include teaching Natural Language Processing with Hello World, developing Data Science curricula with Pathstream, and publishing statistics and machine learning models with Towards Data Science, Springboard, and Medium.
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Mario Corchero Jiménez Mario Corchero Jiménez
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Mario Corchero Jiménez is a senior software developer at Bloomberg. He leads the Python infrastructure team in London, enabling the company to work effectively in Python and building company-wide libraries and tools. His professional experience is mainly in C++ and Python, and he has contributed some patches to multiple Python open source projects. He is a PSF fellow, having received the Q3 2018 PSF Community Award, is vice president of Python Espaa (the Python Spain association), and has served as Chair of PyLondinium, PyConES17, and PyCon Charlas at PyCon 2018. Mario is passionate about the Python community, open source, and inner source.
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Andrew Bird Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird is the data and analytics manager of Vesparum Capital. He leads the software and data science teams at Vesparum, overseeing full-stack web development in Django/React. He is an Australian actuary (FIAA, CERA) who has previously worked with Deloitte Consulting in financial services. Andrew also currently works as a full-stack developer for Draftable Pvt. Ltd. He manages the ongoing development of the donation portal for the Effective Altruism Australia website on a voluntary basis. Andrew has also co-written one of our bestselling titles, "The Python Workshop".
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Dr. Lau Cher Han Dr. Lau Cher Han
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Dr Lau Cher Han is a Chief data scientist, and currently the CEO of LEAD, an institution that provides programs on data science, full stack web development, and digital marketing. Well-versed in programming languages: JavaScript, Python, C# and so on he is experienced in web frameworks: MEAN Stack, ASP.NET, Python Django and is multilingual, speaking English, Chinese, Bahasa fluently. His knowledge of Chinese spreads even into its dialects: Hokkien, Teochew, and Cantonese.
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Graham Lee Graham Lee
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Graham Lee is an experienced programmer and writer. He has written books including Professional Cocoa Application Security, Test-Driven iOS Development, APPropriate Behaviour and APPosite Concerns. He is a developer who's been programming for long enough to want to start telling other people about the mistakes he's made, in the hope that they'll avoid repeating them. In his case, this means having worked for about 12 years as a professional. His first programming experience can hardly be called professional at all: as it was in BASIC, on a Dragon 32 microcomputer.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Python Fundamentals – Math, Strings, Conditionals, and Loops 2. Chapter 2: Python Data Structures 3. Chapter 3: Executing Python – Programs, Algorithms, and Functions 4. Chapter 4: Extending Python, Files, Errors, and Graphs 5. Chapter 5: Constructing Python – Classes and Methods 6. Chapter 6: The Standard Library 7. Chapter 7: Becoming Pythonic 8. Chapter 8: Software Development 9. Chapter 9: Practical Python – Advanced Topics 10. Chapter 10: Data Analytics with pandas and NumPy 11. Chapter 11: Machine Learning 12. Chapter 12: Deep Learning with Python 13. Chapter 13: The Evolution of Python – Discovering New Python Features 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reading files

While databases such as MySQL and Postgres are popular and widely used in many web applications, a large amount of data is still stored and exchanged using text file formats. Popular formats such as comma-separated values (CSV), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and plain text are used to store information such as weather data, traffic data, and sensor readings. In the following exercise, you will learn how to read text from a file using Python.

Exercise 59 – reading a text file using Python

In this exercise, you will be downloading a sample data file from the internet and reading data as the output. Follow these steps:

  1. Open a new Jupyter notebook.
  2. Now, copy the entire text from https://packt.live/2MIHzhO, save it to a local folder as pg37431.txt, and remember where it is located.
  3. Upload the file to your Jupyter notebook by clicking on the Upload button in the top-right corner. Select the pg37431.txt file from your local folder, and then...
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Profile icon Corey Wade
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Corey Wade, M.S. Mathematics, M.F.A. Writing & Consciousness, is the founder and director of Berkeley Coding Academy where he teaches Machine Learning and AI to teens from all over the world. Additionally, Corey chairs the Math Department at Berkeley Independent Study where he has received multiple grants to run after-school coding programs to help bridge the tech skills gap. Additional experiences include teaching Natural Language Processing with Hello World, developing Data Science curricula with Pathstream, and publishing statistics and machine learning models with Towards Data Science, Springboard, and Medium.
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Profile icon Mario Corchero Jiménez
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Mario Corchero Jiménez is a senior software developer at Bloomberg. He leads the Python infrastructure team in London, enabling the company to work effectively in Python and building company-wide libraries and tools. His professional experience is mainly in C++ and Python, and he has contributed some patches to multiple Python open source projects. He is a PSF fellow, having received the Q3 2018 PSF Community Award, is vice president of Python Espaa (the Python Spain association), and has served as Chair of PyLondinium, PyConES17, and PyCon Charlas at PyCon 2018. Mario is passionate about the Python community, open source, and inner source.
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Profile icon Andrew Bird
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Andrew Bird is the data and analytics manager of Vesparum Capital. He leads the software and data science teams at Vesparum, overseeing full-stack web development in Django/React. He is an Australian actuary (FIAA, CERA) who has previously worked with Deloitte Consulting in financial services. Andrew also currently works as a full-stack developer for Draftable Pvt. Ltd. He manages the ongoing development of the donation portal for the Effective Altruism Australia website on a voluntary basis. Andrew has also co-written one of our bestselling titles, "The Python Workshop".
Read more
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Profile icon Dr. Lau Cher Han
LinkedIn
Dr Lau Cher Han is a Chief data scientist, and currently the CEO of LEAD, an institution that provides programs on data science, full stack web development, and digital marketing. Well-versed in programming languages: JavaScript, Python, C# and so on he is experienced in web frameworks: MEAN Stack, ASP.NET, Python Django and is multilingual, speaking English, Chinese, Bahasa fluently. His knowledge of Chinese spreads even into its dialects: Hokkien, Teochew, and Cantonese.
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Profile icon Graham Lee
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Graham Lee is an experienced programmer and writer. He has written books including Professional Cocoa Application Security, Test-Driven iOS Development, APPropriate Behaviour and APPosite Concerns. He is a developer who's been programming for long enough to want to start telling other people about the mistakes he's made, in the hope that they'll avoid repeating them. In his case, this means having worked for about 12 years as a professional. His first programming experience can hardly be called professional at all: as it was in BASIC, on a Dragon 32 microcomputer.
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