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In Core Python Applications Programming, leading software engineer and professional trainer Wesley Chun helps developers who are ready to expand their Python skills and go beyond the language and its syntax to learn about how to apply their skills to application programming. Each chapter provides a quick dive or high-level intro into a variety of specific areas of application development. As with all Core Series books, it delivers hundreds of industrial-strength code snippets and examples (in Python 2 and 3), all targeted at professional develo... MOREpers, which contain not only a high-level intro but also provide real-world insights for developing applications in Python. By using a relaxed, conversational, and fun writing style, the author is able to explain complex programming concepts in ways that are easy to understand. A favorite of Python developers, Core Pythonenters its second decade with this brand new 3rd edition containing updates to mainstay chapters as well as introducing completely new material on Django, Google App Engine, Google Storage, Twitter, text processing, Google Data API, and Programming Microsoft Office. If you're a Python developer, this is an invaluable addition to your collection!

Already know Python but want to learn more? A lot more? Dive into a variety of topics used in practice for real-world applications.
Covers regular expressions, Internet/network programming, GUIs, SQL/databases/ORMs, threading, and Web development.
Learn about contemporary development trends such as Google+, Twitter, MongoDB, OAuth, Python 3 migration, and Java/Jython. Presents brand new material on Django, Google App Engine, CSV/JSON/XML, and Microsoft Office. Includes Python 2 and 3 code samples to get you started right away!
Provides code snippets, interactive examples, and practical exercises to help build your Python skills.

The Complete Developer�s Guide to Python

Python is an agile, robust, and expressive programming language that continues to build momentum. It combines the power of compiled languages with the simplicity and rapid development of scripting languages. In Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition , leading Python developer and corporate trainer Wesley Chun helps you take your Python knowledge to the next level.

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This book has everything you need to become a versatile Python developer. You will be introduced to multiple areas of application development and gain knowledge that can be immediately applied to projects, and you will find code samples in both Python 2 and 3, including migration tips if that�s on your roadmap too. Some snippets will even run unmodified on 2.x or 3.x.

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Learn professional Python style, best practices, and good programming habits
Build clients and servers using TCP, UDP, XML-RPC, and be exposed to higher-level libraries like SocketServer and Twisted
Develop GUI applications using Tkinter and other available toolkits
Improve application performance by writing extensions in C/C++, or enhance I/O-bound code with multithreading
Discover SQL and relational databases, ORMs, and even non-relational (NonSQL) databases like MongoDB
Learn the basics of Web programming, including Web clients and servers, plus CGI and WSGI
Expose yourself to regular expressions and powerful text processing tools for creating and parsing CSV, JSON, and XML data
Interface with popular Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook using COM client programming
Dive deeper into Web development with the Django framework and cloud computing with Google App Engine
Explore Java programming with Jython, the way to run Python code on the JVM
Connect to Web services Yahoo! Finance to get stock quotes, or Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and others to download or send e-mail
Jump into the social media craze by learning how to connect to the Twitter and Google+ networks

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Core Python Applications Programming, Third Edition, delivers

Broad coverage of a variety of areas of development used in real-world applications today
Powerful insights into current and best practices for the intermediate Python programmer
Dozens of code examples, from quick snippets to full-fledged applications
A variety of exercises at the end of every chapter to help hammer the concepts home

Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxvii
About the Author	p. xxxi
General Application Topics	p. 1
Regular Expressions	p. 2
Introduction/Motivation	p. 3
Special Symbols and Characters	p. 6
Regexes and Python	p. 16
Some Regex Examples	p. 36
A Longer Regex Example	p. 41
Exercises	p... MORE. 48
Network Programming	p. 53
Introduction	p. 54
What Is Client/Server Architecture?	p. 54
Sockets: Communication Endpoints	p. 58
Network Programming in Python	p. 61
The SocketServer Module	p. 79
Introduction to the Twisted Framework	p. 84
Related Modules	p. 88
Exercises	p. 89
Internet Client Programming	p. 94
What are Internet Clients?	p. 95
Transferring Files	p. 96
Network News	p. 104
E-Mail	p. 114
Related Modules	p. 146
Exercises	p. 148
Multithreaded Programming	p. 156
Introduction/Motivation	p. 157
Threads and Processes	p. 158
Threads and Python	p. 160
The thread Module	p. 164
The threading Module	p. 169
Comparing Single vs. Multithreaded Execution	p. 180
Multithrading in Practice	p. 182
Producer-Consumr Problem and the Queue/queue Module	p. 202
Alternative Considerations to Threads	p. 206
Related Modules	p. 209
Exercises	p. 210
GUI Programming	p. 213
Introduction	p. 214
Tkinter and Python Programming	p. 216
Tkinter Examples	p. 221
A Brief Tour of Other GUIs	p. 236
Related Modules and Other GUIs	p. 147
Exercises	p. 250
Database Programming	p. 253
Introduction	p. 254
The Python DB-API	p. 259
ORMs	p. 289
Non-Relational Databases	p. 309
Related References	p. 316
Exercises	p. 319
Programming Microsoft Office	p. 324
Introduction	p. 325
COM Client Programming with Python	p. 326
Introductory Examples	p. 328
Intermediate Examples	p. 338
Related Modules/Packages	p. 357
Exercises	p. 357
Extending Python	p. 364
Introduction/Motivation	p. 365
Extending Python by Writing Extensions	p. 368
Related Topics	p. 384
Exercises	p. 388
Web Development	p. 389
Web Clients and Servers	p. 390
Iintroduction	p. 391
Python Web Client Tools	p. 396
Web Clients	p. 410
Web (HTTP) Servers	p. 428
Related Modules	p. 433
Exercises	p. 436
Web Programming: CGI and WSGI	p. 441
Introduction	p. 442
Helping Web Servers Process Client Data	p. 442
Building CGI Applications	p. 446
Using Unicode with CGI	p. 464
Advanced CGI	p. 466
Introduction to WSGI	p. 478
Real-World Web Development	p. 487
Related Modules	p. 488
Exercises	p. 490
Web Frameworks: Django	p. 493
Introduction	p. 494
Web Frameworks	p. 494
Introduction to Django	p. 496
Projects and Apps	p. 501
Your "Hello World" Application (A Blog)	p. 507
Creating a Model to Add Database Service	p. 509
The Python Application Shell	p. 514
The Django Administration App	p. 518
Creating the Blog's User Interface	p. 527
Improving the Output	p. 537
Working with User Input	p. 542
Forms and Model Forms	p. 546
More About Views	p. 551
Look-and-Feel Improvements	p. 553
Unit Testing	p. 554
An Intermediate Django App: The TweetApprover	p. 564
Resources	p. 597
Conclusion	p. 597
Exercises	p. 598
Cloud Computing: Google App Engine	p. 604
Introduction	p. 605
What is Cloud Computing?	p. 605
The Sandbox and the App Engine SDK	p. 612
Choosing an App Engine Framework	p. 617
Python 2.7 Support	p. 626
Comparisons to Django	p. 628
Morphing "Hello World" into a Simple Blog	p. 631
Adding Memcache Service	p. 647
Static Files	p. 651
Adding Users Service	p. 652
Remote API Shell	p. 654
Lightning Round (with Python Code)	p. 656
Sending Instant Messages by Using XMPP	p. 660
Processing Images	p. 662
Task Queues (Unscheduled Tasks)	p. 663
Profiling with Appstats	p. 670
The URLfetch Service	p. 672
Lightning Round (without Python Code)	p. 673
Vendor Lock-In	p. 675
Resources	p. 676
Conclusion	p. 679
Exercises	p. 680
Web Services	p. 684
Introduction	p. 685
The Yahoo! Finance Stock Quote Server	p. 685
Microblogging with Twitter	p. 690
Exercises	p. 707
Supplemental/Experimental	p. 713
Text Processing	p. 714
Comma-Separated Values	p. 715
JavaScript Object Notation	p. 719
Extensible Markup Language	p. 724
References	p. 738
Related Modules	p. 740
Exercises	p. 740
Miscellaneous	p. 743
Jython	p. 744
Google+	p. 748
Exercises	p. 759
Answers to Selected Exercises	p. 763
Reference Tables	p. 768
Python 3: The Evolution of a Programming Language	p. 798
Why is Python Changing?	p. 799
What has Changed?	p. 799
Migration Tools	p. 805
Conclusion	p. 806
References	p. 806
Python 3 Migration with 2.6+	p. 807
Python 3: The Next Generation	p. 807
Integers	p. 809
Built-in Functions	p. 812
Object-Oriented Programming: Two Different Class Objects	p. 814
Strings	p. 815
Exceptions	p. 816
Other Transition Tools and Tips	p. 817
Writing Code that is Compatible in Both Versions 2.x and 3.x	p. 818
Conclusion	p. 822
Index	p. 823
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Wesley J. Chun is the author of the bestselling Core Python titles and the Python Fundamentals LiveLessons companion video. He is coauthor of Python Web Development with Django (withdjango.com), and has written for Linux Journal, CNET, and Inform IT. In addition to being an architect and Developer Advocate at Google, he runs CyberWeb (cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python engineering and technical training. He has more than twenty-five years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in computer science, mathematics, and music from the University of California.

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