"Serious Python contains a considerable amount of judicious battle-tested advice from an experienced developer as well as some insightful gems from the guest contributors making the overall effort a welcome addition to the limited number of books aimed at more advanced Python programmers." Michael J. Ross, web developer and former Slashdot contributor
Introduction
Chapter 1: Starting Your Project Chapter 2: Modules, Libraries, and Frameworks Chapter 3: Documentation and Good API Practice Chapter 4: Handling Timestamps and Time Zones Chapter 5: Distributing Your Software Chapter 6: Unit Testing Chapter 7: Methods and Decorators Chapter 8: Functional Programming Chapter 9: The Abstract Syntax Tree, Hy, and Lisp-like Attributes Chapter 10: Performances and Optimizations Chapter 11: Scaling and Architecture Chapter 12: Managing Relational Databases Chapter 13: Write Less, Code More
Index
Julien Danjou is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and a contributor to OpenStack, the largest existing open source project written in Python. He has been a Free Software and Open Source hacker for the past 15 years.