Python: Create - Modify - Reuse
After reading Python: Create - Modify – Reuse, you will be able to use Python efficiently to create robust, real-world applications and useful, streamlined scripts that are easy to maintain and enhance. Jump into practical Python development after a brief primer on this object-oriented, interactive programming language and learn from project examples in each chapter. Find applications that access databases, take advantage of web technologies, and facilitate network communications and explore advanced topics like accessing operating system resources, writing scripts that are easy to read and maintain, and debugging and testing.
After reading Python: Create - Modify – Reuse, you will be able to use Python efficiently to create robust, real-world applications and useful, streamlined scripts that are easy to maintain and enhance. Jump into practical Python development after a brief primer on this object-oriented, interactive programming language and learn from project examples in each chapter. Find applications that access databases, take advantage of web technologies, and facilitate network communications and explore advanced topics like accessing operating system resources, writing scripts that are easy to read and maintain, and debugging and testing.
This practical hands-on book introduces the Python programming language for rapid prototyping of mobile device applications. It effectively teaches how to program easily on Nokia smartphones that are based on Symbian OS and the S60 platform. A wide range of smartphone functionalities are covered, including camera, sound, graphics, Bluetooth, Internet, positioning, SMS messaging and many more. Mobile Python – or, more formally, Python for S60 empowers you to do fun and engaging stuff with your mobile phone. You can start programming shortly after getting into this book. Being able to see results quickly on the phone guarantees to bring inspiration and makes programming these gadgets fun!
In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to build full-featured production websites using Django, the powerful web development framework based on Python.
Every so often a book comes along that makes you ask yourself, “Gee, when was the last time I had my eyes checked?” David M. Beazley’s Python: Essential Reference is just such a book. Condensing thousands of pages of Python online documentation into a compact 319-page softcover, Beazley and his editors used the old-college trick (often performed in reverse) of dickering with the font size to meet a putative page-limit requirement. The result is a truly condensed product fit for the occularly well-adjusted (nota bene).
Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is ideal for both standalone programs and scripting applications. With this hands-on book, you can master the fundamentals of the core Python language quickly and efficiently, whether you're new to programming or just new to Python. Once you finish, you will know enough about the language to use it in any application domain you choose. Learning Python is based on material from author Mark Lutz's popular training courses, which he's taught over the past decade. Each chapter is a self-contained lesson that helps you thoroughly understand a key component of Python before you continue. Along with plenty of annotated examples, illustrations, and chapter summaries, every chapter also contains Brain Builder, a unique section with practical exercises and review quizzes that let you practice new skills and test your understanding as you go. This book covers: Types and Operations — Python's major built-in object types in depth: numbers, lists, dictionaries, and more Statements and Syntax — the code you type to create and process objects in Python, along with Python's general syntax model Functions — Python's basic procedural tool for structuring and reusing code Modules — packages of statements, functions, and other tools organized into larger components Classes and OOP — Python's optional object-oriented programming tool for structuring code for customization and reuse Exceptions and Tools — exception handling model and statements, plus a look at development tools for writing larger programs Learning Python gives you a deep and complete understanding of the language that will help you comprehend any application-level examples of Python that you later encounter. If you're ready to discover what Google and YouTube see in Python, this book is the best way to get started.
This book teaches Plone development best practices, focusing on Plone 3.0. It covers setting up a development environment, customizing Plone's look and feel, creating new content types and forms, connecting to external databases, managing users and groups intelligently, configuring a production-ready server, LDAP authentication, and caching. Aimed at developers wanting to leverage the proven user interface and flexible infrastructure of this open-source Content Management System, it takes a pragmatic approach, building a realistic example application whose code is included with the book. Built on the Zope application server and written in Python, Plone makes it easy for content authors to create and edit web content, and is also used by developers as a framework to build content-centric web applications like dynamic websites and intranets. Readers need familiarity with Python and basic web technologies such as HTML and CSS, and would also benefit from prior Zope/ Plone experience.
Whether you're building GUI prototypes or full-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel, PyQt 4 is your fastest, easiest, most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt 4 development.
