Jackson - Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

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Cody Jackson is a military veteran and the founder of Socius Consulting, an IT and business management consulting company in San Antonio, Texas. He also works at CACI International as a constructive modeler. He has been involved in the tech industry since 1994. He worked at Gateway Computers as a lab technician prior to joining the Navy. He worked at ECPI University as a computer information systems adjunct professor. He is a self-taught Python programmer and the author of the book series Learning to Program Using Python.

Scott M. Thompson currently works for CACI, Inc. as an ICS/SCADA Security Engineer. He has worked with industrial control systems for over 26 years with the United States Navy. His Navy career included working as an electrician, a main propulsion assistant, and chief engineer of Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates. He was with United States Cyber Command before retiring from the Navy. He holds a master's degree in Cyber Forensics. He has worked with incident response, malware analysis, network penetration testing, mobile device forensics, Windows forensics, and Linux and Python.

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Many readers might feel that they have mastered the Python language and know everything it takes to write applications that utilize the best features of the language. This book aims to delve into aspects of Python and related technology that some developers have never experienced.

The book will unveil little-known or misunderstood aspects of Python related to the implementation of the standard library and provide understanding of how the modules actually work. The book shows the proper implementation of collections and the math module, along with numbers such as decimals and fractions that will help readers expand their horizons. Readers will learn about decorators, context managers, coroutines, and generator functions before learning about internal special methods in detail. The book explores the CPython interpreter, covering command options that can change how the environment functions as well as alternative interactive shells that improve on the normal Python experience. Readers will take a tour of the PyPy project, where they will be exposed to several new ways to improve speed and concurrency of their applications. Several Python Enhancement Proposals of the latest versions are reviewed to see what will be coming in the future of Python. Finally, it provides information on the different ways to document Python code.

This book is meant for Python software developers who want to learn how Python can be used in new ways to improve application performance. Working knowledge of Python is a must to make the most of the book.

, Working with Python Modules , looks at Python packages, modules, and namespaces, using virtual environments, and wrapping up Python code for distribution.