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The Python 3 Standard Library by Example, Second Edition

Name: The Python 3 Standard Library by Example, Second Edition
Author: Doug Hellmann
ISBN: 9780134291154

by Doug Hellmann

June 2017

Intermediate to advanced

1456 pages

48h 27m

English

Addison-Wesley Professional

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Cover Page
About This E-Book
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Introduction
This Book’s Target AudiencePython 3 Versus 2How This Book Is OrganizedDownloading the Example Code
Acknowledgments
About the Author

Chapter 1. Text
1.1 string: Text Constants and Templates1.2 textwrap: Formatting Text Paragraphs1.3 re: Regular Expressions1.4 difflib: Compare Sequences
Chapter 2. Data Structures
2.1 enum: Enumeration Type2.2 collections: Container Data Types2.3 array: Sequence of Fixed-Type Data2.4 heapq: Heap Sort Algorithm2.5 bisect: Maintain Lists in Sorted Order2.6 queue: Thread-Safe FIFO Implementation2.7 struct: Binary Data Structures2.8 weakref: Impermanent References to Objects2.9 copy: Duplicate Objects2.10 pprint: Pretty-Print Data Structures
Chapter 3. Algorithms
3.1 functools: Tools for Manipulating Functions3.2 itertools: Iterator Functions3.3 operator: Functional Interface to Built-In Operators3.4 contextlib: Context Manager Utilities
Chapter 4. Dates and Times
4.1 time: Clock Time4.2 datetime: Date and Time Value Manipulation4.3 calendar: Work with Dates
Chapter 5. Mathematics
5.1 decimal: Fixed- and Floating-Point Math5.2 fractions: Rational Numbers5.3 random: Pseudorandom Number Generators5.4 math: Mathematical Functions5.5 statistics: Statistical Calculations
Chapter 6. The File System
6.1 os.path: Platform-Independent Manipulation of Filenames6.2 pathlib: File System Paths as Objects6.3 glob: Filename Pattern Matching6.4 fnmatch: Unix-Style Glob Pattern Matching6.5 linecache: Read Text Files Efficiently6.6 tempfile: Temporary File System Objects6.7 shutil: High-Level File Operations6.8 filecmp: Compare Files6.9 mmap: Memory-Map Files6.10 codecs: String Encoding and Decoding6.11 io: Text, Binary, and Raw Stream I/O Tools
Chapter 7. Data Persistence and Exchange
7.1 pickle: Object Serialization7.2 shelve: Persistent Storage of Objects7.3 dbm: Unix Key-Value Databases7.4 sqlite3: Embedded Relational Database7.5 xml.etree.ElementTree: XML Manipulation API7.6 csv: Comma-Separated Value Files
Chapter 8. Data Compression and Archiving
8.1 zlib: GNU zlib Compression8.2 gzip: Read and Write GNU zip Files8.3 bz2: bzip2 Compression8.4 tarfile: Tar Archive Access8.5 zipfile: ZIP Archive Access
Chapter 9. Cryptography
9.1 hashlib: Cryptographic Hashing9.2 hmac: Cryptographic Message Signing and Verification
Chapter 10. Concurrency with Processes, Threads, and Coroutines
10.1 subprocess: Spawning Additional Processes10.2 signal: Asynchronous System Events10.3 threading: Manage Concurrent Operations Within a Process10.4 multiprocessing: Manage Processes Like Threads10.5 asyncio: Asynchronous I/O, Event Loop, and Concurrency Tools10.6 concurrent.futures: Manage Pools of Concurrent Tasks
Chapter 11. Networking
11.1 ipaddress: Internet Addresses11.2 socket: Network Communication11.3 selectors: I/O Multiplexing Abstractions11.4 select: Wait for I/O Efficiently11.5 socketserver: Creating Network Servers
Chapter 12. The Internet
12.1 urllib.parse: Split URLs into Components12.2 urllib.request: Network Resource Access12.3 urllib.robotparser: Internet Spider Access Control12.4 base64: Encode Binary Data with ASCII12.5 http.server: Base Classes for Implementing Web Servers12.6 http.cookies: HTTP Cookies12.7 webbrowser: Displays Web Pages12.8 uuid: Universally Unique Identifiers12.9 json: JavaScript Object Notation12.10 xmlrpc.client: Client Library for XML-RPC12.11 xmlrpc.server: An XML-RPC Server
Chapter 13. Email
13.1 smtplib: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client13.2 smtpd: Sample Mail Servers13.3 mailbox: Manipulate Email Archives13.4 imaplib: IMAP4 Client Library
Chapter 14. Application Building Blocks
14.1 argparse: Command-Line Option and Argument Parsing14.2 getopt: Command-Line Option Parsing14.3 readline: The GNU readline Library14.4 getpass: Secure Password Prompt14.5 cmd: Line-Oriented Command Processors14.6 shlex: Parse Shell-Style Syntaxes14.7 configparser: Work with Configuration Files14.8 logging: Report Status, Error, and Informational Messages14.9 fileinput: Command-Line Filter Framework14.10 atexit: Program Shutdown Callbacks14.11 sched: Timed Event Scheduler
Chapter 15. Internationalization and Localization
15.1 gettext: Message Catalogs15.2 locale: Cultural Localization API
Chapter 16. Developer Tools
16.1 pydoc: Online Help for Modules16.2 doctest: Testing Through Documentation16.3 unittest: Automated Testing Framework16.4 trace: Follow Program Flow16.5 traceback: Exceptions and Stack Traces16.6 cgitb: Detailed Traceback Reports16.7 pdb: Interactive Debugger16.8 profile and pstats: Performance Analysis16.9 timeit: Time the Execution of Small Bits of Python Code16.10 tabnanny: Indentation Validator16.11 compileall: Byte-Compile Source Files16.12 pyclbr: Class Browser16.13 venv: Create Virtual Environments16.14 ensurepip: Install the Python Package Installer
Chapter 17. Runtime Features
17.1 site: Site-Wide Configuration17.2 sys: System-Specific Configuration17.3 os: Portable Access to Operating System–Specific Features17.4 platform: System Version Information17.5 resource: System Resource Management17.6 gc: Garbage Collector17.7 sysconfig: Interpreter Compile-Time Configuration
Chapter 18. Language Tools
18.1 warnings: Non-fatal Alerts18.2 abc: Abstract Base Classes18.3 dis: Python Byte-Code Disassembler18.4 inspect: Inspect Live Objects
Chapter 19. Modules and Packages
19.1 importlib: Python’s Import Mechanism19.2 pkgutil: Package Utilities19.3 zipimport: Load Python Code from ZIP Archives
Appendix A. Porting Notes
A.1 ReferencesA.2 New ModulesA.3 Renamed ModulesA.4 Removed ModulesA.5 Deprecated ModulesA.6 Summary of Changes to Modules
Appendix B. Outside of the Standard Library
B.1 TextB.2 AlgorithmsB.3 Dates and TimesB.4 MathematicsB.5 Data Persistence and ExchangeB.6 CryptographyB.7 Concurrency with Processes, Threads, and CoroutinesB.8 The InternetB.9 EmailB.10 Application Building BlocksB.11 Developer Tools
Index of Python Modules
Index
Code Snippets

Content preview from The Python 3 Standard Library by Example, Second Edition

Introduction

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1 Text

1.1 string: Text Constants and Templates

1.1.1 Functions

1.1.2 Templates

1.1.3 Advanced Templates

1.1.4 Formatter

1.1.5 Constants

1.2 textwrap: Formatting Text Paragraphs

1.2.1 Example Data

1.2.2 Filling Paragraphs

1.2.3 Removing Existing Indentation

1.2.4 Combining Dedent and Fill

1.2.5 Indenting Blocks

1.2.6 Hanging Indents

1.2.7 Truncating Long Text

1.3 re: Regular Expressions

1.3.1 Finding Patterns in Text

1.3.2 Compiling Expressions

1.3.3 Multiple Matches

1.3.4 Pattern Syntax

1.3.5 Constraining the Search

1.3.6 Dissecting Matches with Groups

1.3.7 Search Options

1.3.8 Looking Ahead or Behind

1.3.9 Self-referencing Expressions

1.3.10 Modifying Strings with Patterns

1.3.11 ...

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