Fluent Python

This book was written for practicing Python programmers who want to become proficient in Python 3. If you know Python 2 but are willing to migrate to Python 3.4 or later, you should be fine. At the time of this writing, the majority of professional Python programmers are using Python 2, so I took special care to highlight Python 3 features that may be new to that audience. However, Fluent Python is about making the most of Python 3.4, and I do not spell out the fixes needed to make the code work in earlier versions. Most example s should run in Python 2.7 with little or no changes, but in some cases, backporting would require significant rewriting. Learn how to write idiomatic, effective Python code by leveraging its best features. Python's simplicity quickly lets you become productive with it, but this often means you aren’t using everything the language has to offer. By taking you through Python’s key language features and libraries, this practical book shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable all at the same time—what experts consider Pythonic., Many programmers who learn Python basics fall into the trap of reinventing the wheel because of past experience in other languages, and try to bend the language to patterns that don't really apply to it. Author Luciano Ramalho, a Python Software Foundation member and Python programmer for 15 years, helps you drop your accent from another language so you can code Python fluently., •Learn practical applications of generators for database processing, •Rethink some design patterns in a Python context, •Examine attribute descriptors and when to use them: the key to ORMs, •Explore Pythonic objects: protocols versus interfaces, abstract base classes and multiple inheritance