Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide (Power!) (Power!)

The title is a little misleading. Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide. Well, it is a Python Guide, but without much Power (it is there in Python but you will need to apply it - the book does not do it for you) and definitely not Comprehensive. At around 500 pages not sure why the author would even make that claim, unless it was just for advertizing. Despite the misleading title, the book is rather useful in that it is clear and easy to read. It is a good python intro book that touches on some advanced material to wet your appetite and at least have a sense of direction for further pursuits. It can also be used as a fast reference to spur you onto more comprehensive solutions. When the author talks GUI, he talks TKIter, which is appealing. I could not find any reference to unit testing or system/integration testing. These topics are not typically presented in-depth in most python books, but I think the author could have easily stuck in a real-world application of these subjects in association with his Functions and Modules section, which does a good job of explaining passing arguments, etc and could be expanded in the same vein to include Testing Modules. The price is reasonable and if your expectations on the comprehensiveness of the book are moderate then you will likely not be disappointed.

Python, a powerful and flexible general purpose programming language is growing in popularity as more people become interested in programming using open source languages. Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guideshows readers how to use Python to run Web sites, write GUI interfaces, control number-crunching code, process large XML data sets, build test suites for C or Java code, and much more. Technical topics are explained clearly and concisely and end-of-chapter projects encourage the reader to program on their own. A detailed table of contents and a complete, well-organized index make this book a great reference tool. All code used in the book will be available for download on the companion website.

Python, a powerful and flexible general purpose programming language is growing in popularity as more people become interested in programming using open source languages. "Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide" shows readers how to use Python to run Web sites, write GUI interfaces, control number-crunching code, process large XML data sets, build test suites for C or Java code, and much more. Technical topics are explained clearly and concisely and end-of-chapter projects encourage the reader to program on their own. A detailed table of contents and a complete, well-organized index make this book a great reference tool. All code used in the book will be available for download on the companion website. Python is a powerful and flexible general purpose programming language. This comprehensive guide shows readers how to use Python to run Web sites, write GUI interfaces, control number-crunching code, process large XML data sets, build test suites for C or Java code, and more. A guide to the Python computer language covers such topics as data types, control flow, functions and modules, exception handling, the GUI library, and input and output functionality.