Buy and Download - Pluralsight Python Beyond the Basics

2014
Pluralsight
Austin Bingham, Robert Smallshire
7h 22m
English

Python – Beyond the Basics deepens and broadens your knowledge of Python, a dynamic language popular for web development, big data, science, and scripting.

Prerequisites
- Prerequisites
Organizing Larger Programs
- Packages
- Imports From sys.path
- Implementing Packages
- Subpackages
- Example: A Full Program
- Relative Imports
- Controlling Imports With __all__
- Namespace Packages
- Executable Directories
- Recommended Layout
- Duck Tails: Modules Are Singletons
- Summary
Beyond Basic Functions
- Function Review
- Callable Instances
- Classes Are Callable
- Conditional Expressions
- Lambdas
- Detecting Callable Objects
- Extended Formal Argument Syntax
- Extended Call Syntax
- Forwarding Arguments
- Duck Tail: Transposing Tables
- Summary
Closures and Decorators
- Local Functions
- Returning Functions From Functions
- Closures and Nested Scopes
- Function Factories
- The Nonlocal Keyword
- Function Decorators
- A First Decorator Example
- What Can Be a Decorator?
- Instances as Decorators
- Multiple Decorators
- Decorating Methods
- functools.wraps()
- Duck Tails: Validating Arguments
- Summary
Properties and Class Methods
- Class Attributes
- Static Methods
- Class Methods
- Static Methods With Inheritance
- Class Methods With Inheritance
- Properties
- Properties and Inheritance
- Duck Tail: The Template Method Pattern
- Summary
Strings and Representations
- Two String Representations
- repr()
- str()
- When Are the Representations Used?
- Interaction With format()
- reprlib
- asciii(), ord(), and chr()
- Duck Tail: Bigger Isn't Always Better
- Summary
Numeric and Scalar Types
- Reviewing int and float
- The Decimal Module and the Decimal Type
- Rational Numbers With the Fraction Type
- The Complex Type and the cmath Module
- Built-In Numeric Functions abs() and round()
- Number Base Conversions
- The datetime Module and date Type
- The time Type
- The datetime Type
- Durations With the timedelta Type
- Arithmetic With datetime
- Time Zones
- Duck Tail: Floating Point Versus Rational Numbers
- Summary
Iterables and Iteration
- Multi-Input Comprehensions
- Nested Comprehensions
- The map() Function
- Multiple Input Sequences
- map() Versus Comprehensions
- The filter() Function
- The functools.reduce() Function
- Combining map() and reduce()
- The Iteration Protocols
- Putting the Protocols Together
- Alternative Iterable Protocol
- Extended iter() Format
- Duck Tail: Iterator for Streamed Sensor Data
- Summary
Inheritance and Subtype Polymorphism
- Inheritance Overview
- A Realistic Example: SortedList
- The Built-In isinstance() Function
- The Built-In issubclass() Function
- Multiple Inheritance
- Details of Multiple Inheritance
- Method Resolution Order
- How is Method Resolution Order Calculated?
- The Built-In super() Function
- Class-Bound Super Proxies
- Instance-Bound Super Proxies
- Calling super() Without Arguments
- SortedIntList Explained
- The Object Class
- Duck Tail: Inheritance for Implementation Sharing
- Summary
Implementing Collections
- Collection Protocol Overview
- Collection Construction
- The Container Protocol
- The Sized Protocol
- The Iterable Protocol
- The Sequence Protocol: Indexing
- The Sequence Protocol: Slicing
- Comprehensible Test Results With __repr__()
- Implementing Equality and Inequality
- The Sequence Protocol: Reversing
- The Sequence Protocol: index()
- The Sequence Protocol: count()
- Improving Performance From O(N) to O(log n)
- Refactoring to Avoid Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)
- Checking Protocol Implementations
- The Sequence Protocol: Concatenation and Repetition
- The Set Protocol
- Duck Tail: Making a Mutable Set
- Summary
Exceptions and Errors
- Always Specify an Exception Type
- The Standard Exception Hierarchy
- Exception Payloads
- Defining New Exceptions
- Chaining Exceptions
- Traceback Objects
- Assertions: Internal Invariants
- Assertions: Class Invariants
- Assertions: Performance
- Duck Tail: Preconditions and Postconditions
- Summary
Defining Context Managers
- What is a Context Manager?
- The Context Manager Protocol
- A First Context Manager Example
- __enter__()
- __exit__()
- __exit__() and Exception Propagation
- The with-statement Expansion
- contextlib.contextmanager
- Multiple Context Managers
- Don't Pass a List!
- Duck Tail: Context Managers for Transactions
- Summary
Introspection
- Object Types in Depth
- Introspecting Objects
- Introspecting Scopes
- The Python Standard Library Inspect Module
- Duck Tail: An Object Introspection Tool
- Summary

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