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About the Authors

David Beazley is an independent software developer and book author living in the city of Chicago. He primarily works on programming tools, provide custom software development, and teach practical programming courses for software developers, scientists, and engineers. He is best known for his work with the Python programming language, for which he has created several open-source packages (e.g., Swig and PLY) and authored the acclaimed Python Essential Reference. He also has significant experience with systems programming in C, C++, and assembly language.

Brian K. Jones is the Chief Technology Officer at AWeber Communications. He is also co-author of Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two, as well as Python Cookbook, Third Edition. He's the creator of Python Magazine, and former Editor in Chief of php|architect Magazine. He's also the founder of the Python User Group in Princeton (PUG-IP) and co-founder of LOPSA-NJ. Finally, Brian plays a mean game of straight pool, brews beer, plays guitar, and writes a good bit of code, usually in Python. Brian has been a member of the Python Software Foundation since 2011, and speaks regularly at conferences and meetups.

Python Cookbook, Third Edition

By David Beazley
and Brian K. Jones Read Online Buy the Ebook

If you need help writing programs in Python 3, or want to update older Python 2 code, this book is just the ticket. Packed with practical recipes written and tested with Python 3.3, this unique cookbook is for experienced Python programmers who want to focus on modern tools and idioms.

Inside, you’ll find complete recipes for more than a dozen topics, covering the core Python language as well as tasks common to a wide variety of application domains. Each recipe contains code samples you can use in your projects right away, along with a discussion about how and why the solution works.

Topics include:

  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Strings and Text
  • Numbers, Dates, and Times
  • Iterators and Generators
  • Files and I/O
  • Data Encoding and Processing
  • Functions
  • Classes and Objects
  • Metaprogramming
  • Modules and Packages
  • Network and Web Programming
  • Concurrency
  • Utility Scripting and System Administration
  • Testing, Debugging, and Exceptions
  • C Extensions