
Supercharged Python
After a quick review of Python, the book covers: advanced list and string techniques; all the ways to handle text and binary files; financial applications; advanced techniques for writing classes; generators and decorators; and how to master packages such as Numpy (Numeric Python) to supercharge your applications!
- Use profilers and "magic methods" to code like a pro
- Harness the power of regular expressions to process text quickly with a single statement
- Take advantage of 22 coding shortcuts, along with performance tips, to save time and optimise your code
- Create really useful classes and objects, for games, simulations, money, mathematics, and more
- Use multiple modules to build powerful apps while avoiding the "gotchas"
- Import packages to dramatically speed up statistical operations-by as much as 100 times!
- Refer to the five-part language reference to look up fine points of the language
