Modern Python Cookbook: 130+ updated recipes for modern Python 3.12 with new techniques and tools Modern Python Cookbook: 130+ updated recipes for modern Python 3.12 with new techniques and tools Paperback Kindle

The book is split into four sections to help you easily find the recipes you need when you need them

Section one, Python Fundamentals, covers all the essential techniques you need to become an effective Python developer. You’ll explore strings and tuples and go in depth into number types so you can take on a host of advanced numerical programming problems. You’ll see how to use complex statements, type hints, and built-in data structures like lists and dictionaries, and you’ll even dip into debugging with the f-string.

Section two, Object-Oriented and Functional Design Approaches, will take you through a series of recipes for both programming paradigms. You’ll find out how to create classes and related type hints, work with objects, extend built-in classes, and manage resources with context managers. You’ll also be introduced to function definitions, immutable objects, generator expressions, how to create partial functions, and more.

Move beyond development and get ready for production

The last section, Completing a Project: Fit and Finish, will help you put everything together so that you can deliver functional and deployable applications. You’ll find recipes on testing, first using built-in solutions like doctest and unittest, and then expanding out to use the external tool pytest. You’ll also find coverage on handling dependencies and managing virtual environments. You’ll use the built-in module venv, but also explore conda, with its pre-built binaries and accessible compiler, and poetry for an all-in-one virtual environment manager and package installer. The section closes with a chapter covering documentation and style. You’ll see how to use tools for linting, to find and remove bugs, how to format your code for quality assurance, and how to use the sphinx tool – which will help you create comprehensive and readable documentation.