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  Python Phrasebook

  by Brad Dayley

  Python PhrasebookBrad DayleyEssential Code and CommandsPython Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you need to quickly and effectively complete your programming projects in Python.Concise and AccessibleEasy to carry and easy to use—lets you ditch all those bulky books for one portable guideFlexible and FunctionalPacked with more than 100 customizable code snippets—so you can readily code functional Python in just about any situation

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  High Performance Python

  by Andrew Lewis

  Learn how to make your Python code more efficient with High Performance Python, the only book that addresses the theory and practice of Python optimization. Python can help you implement complex, mission-critical applications from scratch, but poorly optimized code can waste millions of processor cycles. This book focuses on common causes of poor performance and how to overcome them, from the algorithmic roots of code to Python-specific idioms.

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  Python Programming with Oracle Database

  by Ray Terrill

  Ray Terrill's Python Programming with Oracle Database is a detailed exploration of the ways in which the Python programming language can be used to interact with the Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). As evidenced by the table of contents, the book covers the broad spectrum of Python/Oracle interactions, including standard SQL, PL/SQL, connecting as a SYSDBA user, and object-oriented database interactions.

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  Starting Out with Python (Starting Out With...)

  by Tony Gaddis

  In Starting Out with Python(R), Tony Gaddis' evenly paced, accessible coverage introduces students to the basics of programming and prepares them to transition into more complicated languages. Python, an easy-to-learn and increasingly popular object-oriented language, allows readers to become comfortable with the fundamentals of programming without the troublesome syntax that can be challenging for novices.

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  Exploring Python

  by Timothy Budd

  Exploring Python takes an active learning approach which engages the student as an equal partner in the process of learning the fun, educational, and powerful programming language. This approach instills habits that students will carry with them throughout their programming career and helps them retain and use the information they have learned.

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  Learning Python

  by Mark Lutz

  The authors of Learning Python show you enough essentials of the Python scripting language to enable you to begin solving problems right away, then reveal more powerful aspects of the language one at a time. This approach is sure to appeal to programmers and system administrators who have urgent problems and a preference for learning by semi-guided experimentation.

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  Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python, A Multimedia Approach (2nd Edition)

  by Mark J. Guzdial, Barbara Ericson

  Guzdial introduces programming as a way of creating and manipulating media—a context familiar and intriguing to today's readers. Starts readers with actual programming early on. Puts programming in a relevant context (Computing for Communications). Includes implementing Photoshop-like effects, reversing/splicing sounds, creating animations. Acknowledges that readers in this audience care about the Web; introduces HTML and covers writing programs that generate HTML.

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  Python Essential Reference (4th Edition) (Developer's Library)

  by David M. Beazley

  Every so often a book comes along that makes you ask yourself, "Gee, when was the last time I had my eyes checked?" David M. Beazley's Python: Essential Reference is just such a book. Condensing thousands of pages of Python online documentation into a compact 319-page softcover, Beazley and his editors used the old-college trick (often performed in reverse) of dickering with the font size to meet a putative page-limit requirement.

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  Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python

  by Jennifer Campbell, Paul Gries, Jason Montojo, Greg Wilson

  Computers are used in every part of science from ecology to particle physics. This introduction to computer science continually reinforces those ties by using real-world science problems as examples. Anyone who has taken a high school science class will be able to follow along as the book introduces the basics of programming, then goes on to show readers how to work with databases, download data from the web automatically, build graphical interfaces, and most importantly, how to think like a p

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  Regular Expressions Cookbook

  by Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan

  This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions, but their power doesn't come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing bugs.

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