Previous edition: published as by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, Steve Holden. 2017

Introduction to Python -- The Python interpreter -- The Python language -- Object-oriented Python -- Type annotations -- Exceptions -- Modules and packages -- Core built-ins and standard library modules -- Strings and things -- Regular expressions -- File and text operations -- Persistence and databases -- Time operations -- Customizing execution -- Concurrency: threads and processes -- Numeric processing -- Testing, debugging, and optimizing -- Networking basics -- Client-side network protocol modules -- Serving HTTP -- Email, MIME, and other network encodings -- Structured text: HTML -- Structured text: XML -- Packaging programs and extensions -- Extending and embedding classic Python -- v.3.7 to v3.n migration -- Appendix: New features and changes in Python 3.7 through 3.11

Python was recently ranked as today's most popular programming language on the TIOBE index, thanks to its broad applicability to design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance. With this updated fourth edition, you'll learn how to get the most out of Python, whether you're a professional programmer or someone who needs this language to solve problems in a particular field. Carefully curated by recognized experts in Python, this new edition focuses on version 3.10, bringing this seminal work on the Python language fully up to date on five version releases, including preview coverage of upcoming 3.11 features

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