Book description
Take Python beyond scripting to build robust, reusable, and efficient applications
About This Book
- Get to grips with Python techniques that address commonly encountered problems in general application development.
- Develop, package, and deploy efficient applications in a fun way.
- All-practical coverage of the major areas of application development, including best practices, exception handling, testing, refactoring, design patterns, performance, and GUI application development.
Who This Book Is For
Do you know the basics of Python and object oriented programming? Do you want to go an extra mile and learn techniques to make your Python application robust, extensible, and efficient? Then this book is for you.
What You Will Learn
- Build a robust application by handling exceptions.
- Modularize, package, and release the source distribution.
- Document the code and implement coding standards.
- Create automated tests to catch bugs in the early development stage.
- Identify and re-factor badly written code to improve application life.
- Detect recurring problems in the code and apply design patterns.
- Improve code efficiency by identifying performance bottlenecks and fixing them.
- Develop simple GUI applications using Python.
In Detail
Python is one of the most widely used dynamic programming languages, supported by a rich set of libraries and frameworks that enable rapid development. But fast paced development often comes with its own baggage that could bring down the quality, performance, and extensibility of an application. This book will show you ways to handle such problems and write better Python applications.
From the basics of simple command-line applications, develop your skills all the way to designing efficient and advanced Python apps. Guided by a light-hearted fantasy learning theme, overcome the real-world problems of complex Python development with practical solutions. Beginning with a focus on robustness, packaging, and releasing application code, you'll move on to focus on improving application lifetime by making code extensible, reusable, and readable. Get to grips with Python refactoring, design patterns and best practices. Techniques to identify the bottlenecks and improve performance are covered in a series of chapters devoted to performance, before closing with a look at developing Python GUIs.
Style and approach
The book uses a fantasy game theme as a medium to explain various topics. Specific aspects of application development are explained in different chapters. In each chapter the reader is presented with an interesting problem which is then tackled using hands-on examples with easy-to-follow instructions.
Table of contents
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Learning Python Application Development
- Table of Contents
- Learning Python Application Development
- Credits
- Disclaimers
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Developing Simple Applications
- 2. Dealing with Exceptions
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3. Modularize, Package, Deploy!
- Selecting a versioning convention
- Modularizing the code
- Creating a package
- Releasing the package on PyPI
- Using a private PyPI repository
- Making an incremental release
- Version controlling the code
- Using GUI clients for Git
- Exercise
- Summary
- 4. Documentation and Best Practices
- 5. Unit Testing and Refactoring
- 6. Design Patterns
- 7. Performance – Identifying Bottlenecks
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8. Improving Performance – Part One
- Prerequisite for the chapter
- This is how the chapter is organized
- Revisiting the Gold Hunt scenario
- Optimizing Gold Hunt – Part one
- Performance improvement goodies
- Exercises
- Summary
- 9. Improving Performance – Part Two, NumPy and Parallelization
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10. Simple GUI Applications
- Overview of GUI frameworks
- GUI programming design considerations
- Event-driven programming
- GUI programming with Tkinter
- Project-1 – Attack of the Orcs V10.0.0
- MVC architecture
- Project 2 – Attack of the Orcs v10.1.0
- Testing GUI applications
- Exercises
- Further reading
- Summary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Learning Python Application Development
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785889196
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