Fluent Python (2nd Edition)

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Python' s simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but often this means you aren' t using everything it has to offer. With the updated edition of this hands-on guide, you' ll learn how to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging its best ideas. Don' t waste time bending Python to fit patterns you learned in other languages. Discover and apply idiomatic Python 3 features beyond your past experience. Author Luciano Ramalho guides you through Python' s core language features and libraries and teaches you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable. Featuring major updates throughout the book, Fluent Python, second edition, covers:Special methods: The key to the consistent behavior of Python objectsData structures: Sequences, dicts, sets, Unicode, and data classesFunctions as objects: First-class functions, related design patterns, and type hints in function declarationsObject-oriented idioms: Composition, inheritance, mixins, interfaces, operator overloading, static typing and protocolsControl flow: Context managers, generators, coroutines, async/await, and thread/process poolsMetaprogramming: Properties, attribute descriptors, class decorators, and new class metaprogramming hooks that are simpler than metaclasses