Advanced Python 3 Programming Techniques

This short cut is taken from Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (Addison-Wesley, 2009) and provides self-containedcoverage of Python’s advanced features. Most of the techniques covered arenot needed every day, but in the right circumstances they can make a crucialdifference, allowing us to write clean and straightforward code rather thanhaving to resort to hacks and workarounds to achieve what we need. The shortcut explains a range of procedural, object-oriented, and functional-style techniques,and the information provided will be a considerable addition to mostPython programmers’ toolboxes.

Mark Summerfield is a computer science graduate with many years experience working in the software industry, primarily as a programmer. He also spent almost three years as Trolltech’s documentation manager during which he founded and edited Trolltech’s technical journal, Qt Quarterly. (Trolltech is now Nokia’s Qt Software.) Mark is the coauthor of C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, and author of Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming and Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (from which this short cut is taken).Mark owns Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu, where he works as an independent author, editor, trainer, and consultant, specializing in C++, Qt, Python, and PyQt.