Tapping into the full power of Python doesn’t have to be difficult. Supercharged Python is written for people who’ve learned the fundamentals of the language but want to take their skills to the next level. 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.
Features:
1. Use profilers and “magic methods” to code like a pro
2. Harness the power of regular expressions to process text quickly with a single statement
3. Take advantage of 22 coding shortcuts, along with performance tips, to save time and optimize your code
4. Create really useful classes and objects, for games, simulations, money, mathematics, and more
5. Use multiple modules to build powerful apps while avoiding the “gotchas”
6. Import packages to dramatically speed up statistical operations—by as much as 100 times!
7. Refer to the five-part language reference to look up fine points of the language
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Review of the Fundamentals
Chapter 2: Advanced String Capabilities
Chapter 3: Advanced List Capabilities
Chapter 4: Shortcuts, Command Line, and Packages
Chapter 5: Formatting Text Precisely
Chapter 6: Regular Expressions, Part I
Chapter 7: Regular Expressions, Part II
Chapter 8: Text and Binary Files
Chapter 9: Classes and Magic Methods
Chapter 10: Decimal, Money, and Other Classes
Chapter 11: The Random and Math Packages
Chapter 12: The “numpy” (Numeric Python) Package
Chapter 13: Advanced Uses of “numpy”
Chapter 14: Multiple Modules and the RPN Example
Chapter 15: Getting Financial Data off the Internet
About the Author
BRIAN OVERLAND is the author of over a dozen books on programming, including Python Without Fear and C++ for the Impatient. In his ten years at Microsoft he was a software tester, programmer/writer, and manager. He was the lead writer and overall documentation project lead for Visual Basic 1.0. With all the courses, books, tutorials, and manuals he’s produced, he’s taught hundreds of thousands of people how to program.
JOHN BENNETT was formerly a senior software engineer at Proximity Technology, Franklin Electronic Publishing, and Microsoft Corporation. More recently, he has developed new programming languages using Python as a prototyping tool. He has worked on a variety of software projects, including a handheld spellchecker and East Asian handwriting recognition software. He holds nine U.S. patents.
