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Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition

You're reading from Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition Master Python by learning the best coding practices and advanced programming concepts

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Last Updated in Feb 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071109

Length 630 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (3):

Michał Jaworski

Tarek Ziade

Ziadé

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Current Status of Python

2. Modern Python Development Environments

3. New Things in Python

4. Python in Comparison with Other Languages

5. Interfaces, Patterns, and Modularity FREE CHAPTER

6. Concurrency

7. Event-Driven Programming

8. Elements of Metaprogramming

9. Bridging Python with C and C++

10. Testing and Quality Automation

11. Packaging and Distributing Python Code

12. Observing Application Behavior and Performance

13. Code Optimization

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

15. Index

Technical requirements

The following are the Python packages that are mentioned in this chapter that you can download from PyPI:

freezegun
sentry-sdk
prometheus-client
jaeger-client
Flask-OpenTracing
redis_opentracing

Information on how to install packages is included in Chapter 2, Modern Python Development Environments.

The code files for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Expert-Python-Programming-Fourth-Edition/tree/main/Chapter%2012.

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Authors (3)

Michał Jaworski

Michał Jaworski

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Tarek Ziade

Tarek Ziade

Tarek Ziadé is a Python developer located in the countryside near Dijon, France. He works at Mozilla in the services team. He founded a French Python user group called Afpy, and has written several books about Python in French and English. When he is not hacking on his computer or hanging out with his family, he's spending time between his two passions, running and playing the trumpet. You can visit his personal blog (Fetchez le Python) and follow him on Twitter (tarek_ziade).

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Ziadé

Ziadé

Tarek Ziadé is a Software Engineer, located in Burgundy, France. He works at Elastic, building tools for developers. Before Elastic, he worked at Mozilla for 10 years. Tarek founded a French Python User group called Afpy. He has written several articles on the Python programming language for various magazines and also a few books in French and English.

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