Learning Python Powerful Object-Oriented Programming, 6th Edition

Complete with quizzes, exercises, and helpful illustrations, this easy-to-follow self-paced tutorial gets you started with Python 3.12 and all other releases in use today. With a pragmatic focus on what you need to know, it also introduces some advanced language features that have become increasingly common in Python code.
This book helps you:
* Explore Python's built-in object types such as strings, lists, dictionaries, and files
* Create and process objects with Python statements, and learn Python's syntax model
* Use functions and functional programming to avoid redundancy and maximize reuse
* Organize code into larger components with modules and packages
* Code robust programs with Python's exception handling and development tools
* Apply object-oriented programming and classes to make code customizable
* Survey advanced Python tools including decorators, descriptors, and metaclasses
* Write idiomatic Python code that runs portably across a wide variety of platforms