Intermediate Python

by Muhammad Yasoob Ullah Khalid

Python is an amazing language with a strong and friendly community of programmers. However, there is a lack of documentation on what to learn after getting the basics of Python down your throat. Through this book I aim to solve this problem. I would give you bits of information about some interesting topics which you can further explore.

The topics which are discussed in this book open up your mind towards some nice corners of Python language. This book is an outcome of my desire to have something like it when I was beginning to learn Python.

If you are a beginner, intermediate or even an advanced programmer there is something for you in this book.

Please note that this book is not a tutorial and does not teach you Python. The topics are not explained in depth, instead only the minimum required information is given.

I am sure you are as excited as I am so let’s start!

The topics covered in this book

- *args and **kwargs
- Debugging
- Generators
- Map & Filter
- set Data Structure
- Ternary Operators
- Decorators
- Global & Return
- Mutation
- __slots__ Magic
- Virtual Environment
- Collections
- Enumerate
- Object introspection
- Comprehensions
- Exceptions
- Lambdas
- One Liners
- For – Else
- Open function
- Targeting Python 2+3
- Coroutines
- Function caching
- Context managers

Genres: Programming

82 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 16, 2015

Reviews

[Alamin · Rating 4 out of 5]

you can read it...
you will get a lot of questions answered

[Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some sections of this were extremely useful. Unfortunately, the examples were rather weak, and felt contrived most of the time. Furthermore, the tonal shifts between professional and conversational did not doing anything for me. Despite these flaws, some of the content is pure gold that I will refer back to again and again, and even looking at the table of contents is great for providing a road-map for personal development as a programmer.

[Farsan Rashid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, concise. Most topics discussed are useful to either understand python concepts like generator, iterator, object inspection, decorator etc or write Pythonic code using map, filter, comprehensions, collections, lambda etc. Some topics are too familiar to any python devs (e.g virtual env). I would recommend to someone who either know python basics or is moving to python from another language.

[Ginny Pennekamp · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some useful tips in plain English in here, but not a lot of detailed explanation or opportunites for practice.

[David Zhang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Certainly intermediate!

[Seburath · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great free book!
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The examples are so concise and easy to understand, I remember video tutorials about some of these topics that were not understandable, I wish I had read it earlier.

Talks a little bit about python 2, so that's outdated, will be awesome to read a new edition!

[Arthur Gavrichenko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Читал перевод на русский язык. Очень интересно описываются особенности языка, хотя в некоторых местах не хватает примеров. Советую прочитать тем кто знает основы языка Питон

[Robin Dong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Difficulty-level is just good for me.

[Mohammad Laif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short book to step out from python basics. It explained many concepts like: args, kwargs, generators, coroutines, map, decorators, lambdas, for else, collections etc...

Or as the intro says:
there is a lack of documentation on what to learn after getting the basics of Python down your throat. Through this book I aim to solve this problem. I would give you bits of information about some interesting topics which you can further explore.

[Tadas Talaikis · Rating 4 out of 5]

For Python 3.4, therefore doesn't cover all the chaos behind the asyncio, futures, threads, etc. Good book, though.