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Make Python Talk
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Make Python Talk

by Mark Liu
August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 15m
English
No Starch Press
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Introduction

Banks are essentially technology firms.

—Hugo Banziger, former chief risk officer at Deutsche Bank

Python is currently the world’s most popular coding language, having overtaken more long established languages like Java and C. Once you start to code in Python, it’s easy to see why. The two main advantages of Python are its simplicity and openness. Python code is relatively close to plain English, so with only a little experience, you can often guess what a script is trying to accomplish.

Python is open source, meaning not only that the software is free to use for everyone but also that other users can create and alter libraries. ...

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ISBN: 9781098129071