The Hacker's Guide to Python

Starting your project Python versions Project layout Version numbering Coding style & automated checks Modules and libraries The import system Standard libraries External libraries Frameworks Interview with Doug Hellmann Managing API changes Interview with Christophe de Vienne Documentation Getting started with Sphinx and reST Sphinx modules Extending Sphinx Distribution A bit of history Packaging with pbr The Wheel format Package installation Sharing your work with the world Interview with Nick Coghlan Entry points Visualising entry points Using console scripts Using plugins and drivers Virtual environments Unit testing The basics Fixtures Mocking Scenarios Test streaming and parallelism Coverage Using virtualenv with tox Testing policy Interview with Robert Collins Methods and decorators Creating decorators How methods work in Python Static methods Class method Abstract methods Mixing static, class, and abstract methods The truth about super Functional programming Generators List comprehensions Functional functions functioning The AST Hy Interview with Paul Tagliamonte Performances and optimizations Data structures Profiling Ordered list and bisect Namedtuple and slots Memoization PyPy Achieving zero copy with the buffer protocol Interview with Victor Stinner Scaling and architecture A note on multi-threading Multiprocessing vs multithreading Asynchronous and event-driven architecture Service-oriented architecture RDBMS and ORM Streaming data with Flask and PostgreSQL Interview with Dimitri Fontaine Python 3 support strategies Language and standard library External libraries Using six Write less, code more Single dispatcher Context managers