November 2009
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
18h 41m
English
In this chapter we will look at a wide variety of different programming techniques and introduce many additional, often more advanced, Python syntaxes. Some of the material in this chapter is quite challenging, but keep in mind that the most advanced techniques are rarely needed and you can always skim the first time to get an idea of what can be done and read more carefully when the need arises.
The chapter’s first section digs more deeply into Python’s procedural features. It starts by showing how to use what we already covered in a novel way, and then returns to the theme of generators that we only touched ...