Python Books
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The Definitive Guide to SQLite
Published 14 years ago includes sample chapter
by Michael Owens, Apress
The Definitive Guide to SQLite is the perfect book about SQLite. It covers everything needed to start working with SQLite including installation, using the SQLite shell, and programming with SQLite using six different language extensions. — Joe Topjian, Adminspotting Traditional relational databases and embedded databases both have shortcomings that can leave a developer perplexed.
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Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional
Published 15 years ago includes sample chapter
by Magnus Lie Hetland, Apress
Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional is the most comprehensive book on the Python ever written. Advanced topics, such as extending Python and packaging/distributing Python applications, are also covered. Ten different projects illustrate the concepts introduced in the book. You will learn how to create a P2P file-sharing application and a web-based bulletin board, and how to remotely edit web-based documents and create games.
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Foundations of Python Network Programming
Published 16 years ago includes sample chapter
by John Goerzen, Apress
This may be the easiest book review I've ever written. If you program in Python and you want to write Internet applications, go buy Foundations of Python Network Programming by John Goerzen. There. I've already folded down the corners of quite a few pages, and expect I'll refer to this book often in the coming months. — Greg Wilson, Dr. I think Apress is bringing a lot of helpful programming texts to the world.
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Dive Into Python
Published 16 years ago includes sample chapter
by Mark Pilgrim, Apress
Whether you're an experienced programmer looking to get into Python or grizzled Python veteran who remembers the days when you had to import the string module, Dive Into Python is your 'desert island' Python book. As a complete newbie to the language?I constantly had those little thoughts like, 'this is the way a programming language should be taught.
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The Definitive Guide to Plone
Published 16 years ago includes sample chapter
by Andy McKay, Apress
"Enjoyable to read?it has plenty of cautionary notes, hints, and other bits of advice that keep the reader awake and interested." ? Samuel Sotillo, ZopeMag.com This unique guide to Plone covers everything from installing Plone (on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) to writing code for the system. As part of the Apress library of Python programming and content management tools, The Definitive Guide to Plone is authored by a member of Plone's core development team, Andy McKay.
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Practical Python
Published 18 years ago includes sample chapter
by Magnus Lie Hetland, Apress
My plan to start seriously learning Python begins with Practical Python... This book properly blends programming concepts with design concepts...and cements its lessons with entertaining examples. — Craig Banker, Baton Rouge Linux User Group Practical Python offers a highly useful guide to the Python programming language. In disarmingly readable prose, author Magnus Lie Hetland guides you through those concepts of most importance to the budding Python developer.