The Quick Python Book

Python is a true cross-platform language. It can be used to develop small applications and rapid prototypes, but scales well to permit development of large programs. It comes with a powerful and easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, web programming libraries and more. And it's free!

This book contains:

• Clear introduction
• Completely up-to-date
• Hands-on experience

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This revision of Manning's popular The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp introduction to the elegant Python programming language and its famously easy-to-read syntax.

The Quick Python Book, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to the Python language by a Python authority, Naomi Ceder. With the personal touch of a skilled teacher, she beautifully balances details of the language with the insights and advice you need to handle any task.

Extensive, relevant examples and learn-by-doing exercises help you master each important concept the first time through. Whether you're scraping websites or playing around with nested tuples, you'll appreciate this book's clarity, focus, and attention to detail.

After exploring Python's syntax, control flow, and basic data structures, the book shows how to create, test, and deploy full applications and larger code libraries. It addresses established Python features as well as the advanced object-oriented options available in Python 3.

This edition covers 5 years' worth of minor updates to the language, and the last 5 chapters have been reworked to be data based project work.

Inside you'll find:

• Clear coverage of Python 3
• Core libraries, packages, and tools
• In-depth exercises
• Five new data science-related chapters

The book is aimed at readers who know programming but for whom the Python language is new.