Michał Jaworski - Expert Python Programming: Master Python by learning the best coding practices and advanced programming concepts, 4th Edition

Expert Python Programming

Fourth Edition

Master Python by learning the best coding practices and advanced programming concepts

Micha Jaworski

Tarek Ziad

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

Expert Python Programming

Fourth Edition

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Micha Jaworski has more than 10 years of professional experience in writing software using various programming languages. Micha has spent most of his career writing high-performance and distributed backend services for web applications. He has served in various roles at multiple companies: from an ordinary software engineer to lead software architect. His beloved language of choice has always been Python.

I want to thank my wife for giving me constant support. Oliwia, you're the only person who knew from the very beginning that I was lying to myself when I said that this will be a light project that won't take much of my (our) time. I don't know why, but you encouraged me to do it anyway.

Tarek Ziad is a software engineer, located in Burgundy, France. He works at Elastic, building tools for developers. Before Elastic, he worked at Mozilla for 10 years, and he founded a French Python User group, called AFPy. Tarek has also written several articles about Python for various magazines, and a few books in French and English.

I would like to thank Freya, Suki, Milo, and Amina for being so supportive of all my book projects.

Tal Einat has been developing software for nearly 20 years, of which Python has always been a major element. He's been a core developer of the Python language since 2010. Tal holds a B.Sc. in Math & Physics from Tel Aviv University. He likes hiking, computer games, philosophical sci-fi, and spending time with his family.

For the past eight years, Tal has been developing educational technology, first at Compedia where he built a group developing VR and AR education apps, and later at the startup FullProof of which he was a co-founder.

Tal currently works at Rhino Health, a startup working to the enable development and use of medical AI models with patient data from across the globe while preserving patient privacy.

I dedicate my part of the work on this book to my grandfather Jacob "Yanek" Friedman who passed away recently you live on in our thoughts, making us strong and putting a smile on our faces. I'd like to thank my wife, children, brother, parents and extended family, for being ever supportive and filling my life with so much joy.