Core Python Applications Programming, 3rd Edition

In Core Python Applications Programming, you will take all the Python knowledge gained elsewhere and develop new skills, building up a toolset with which you'll be able to use Python for a variety of general applications. These advanced topics chapters are meant as intros or "quick dives" into a variety of distinct subjects. If you're moving toward the specific areas of application development covered by any of these chapters, you'll

likely discover that they contain more than enough information to get you pointed in the right direction. Do not expect an in-depth treatment because that will detract from the breadth-oriented treatment that this book is designed to convey.

Like all other Core Python books, throughout this one, you will find many examples that you can try right in front of your computer. To hammer the concepts home, you will also find fun and challenging exercises at the end of every chapter. These easy and intermediate exercises are meant to test your learning and push your Python skills. There simply is no substitute for hands-on experience. We believe you should not only pick up

Python programming skills but also be able to master them in as short a time period as possible. Because the best way for you to extend your Python skills is through practice, you will find these exercises to be one of the greatest strengths of this book. They will test your knowledge of chapter topics and definitions as well as motivate you to code as much as possible. There is no substitute for improving your skills more effectively than by building applications. You will find easy, intermediate, and difficult problems to solve. It is also here that you might need to write one of those "large" applications that many readers wanted to see in the book, but rather than scripting them—which frankly doesn't do you all that much good—you gain by jumping right in and doing it yourself. Appendix A, "Answers to Selected Exercises," features answers to selected problems from each chapter. As with the second edition, you'll find useful reference tables collated in Appendix B, "Reference Tables." I'd like to personally thank all readers for your feedback and encouragement. You're the reason why I go through the effort of writing these books.I encourage you to keep sending your feedback and help us make a fourth edition possible, and even better than its predecessors!