This book is a sequel to Python 101. It will help you grow in your abilities as a Python programmer as it introduces intermediate and advanced topics such as function overloading, Unicode, caching, benchmarking, testing, concurrency and much more!

Table of Contents

Part I - The Intermediate Modules

Chapter 1 - An Intro to Argument Parsing using argparse

Chapter 2 - The collections module

Chapter 3 - Context Managers

Chapter 4 - The functools module

Chapter 5 - All About Imports

Chapter 6 - The importlib Module

Chapter 7 - Iterators and Generators

Chapter 8 - The itertools Module

Chapter 9 - Regular Expressions

Chapter 10 - The typing Module

Part II - Odds and Ends

Chapter 11 - Python Built-ins

Chapter 12 - Unicode

Chapter 13 - Benchmarking

Chapter 14 - Encryption and Cryptography

Chapter 15 - Databases

Chapter 16 - The super built-in

Chapter 17 - Descriptors

Chapter 18 - Scope

Part Ill - Working with the Web

Chapter 19 - Web Scraping

Chapter 20 - Web APls

Chapter 21 - Working with FTP

Chapter 22 - The urllib Module

Part IV - Testing

Chapter 24 - The doctest Module

Chapter 24 - The unittest Module

Chapter 25 - The mock Module

Chapter 26 - An Intro to coverage.py

Part V - Concurrency

Chapter 27 - The asyncio Module

Chapter 28 - The threading Module

Chapter 29 - The multiprocessing Module

Chapter 30 - The concurrent.futures Module

About the Author

Michael Driscoll has been programming with the Python language since 2006. He has been writing about Python on his blog, "The Mouse Vs. The Python", and is a member of the Python Software Foundation. He has co-authored "Core Python Cheatsheet" for DZone and is a regular contributor to the Real Python website. He has also been a technical reviewer for Python books from Packt Publishing and No Starch Press.

Michael has written several books on Python and wxPython. He also recently released a complete rewrite of Python 101 and has a couple more books in the pipeline

Michael enjoys photography, a wide variety of music, and learning more about Christian apologetics.