#485 Fluent Python

Book Notes - Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho. First published January 25, 2015.

Notes

Contents

• I. Prologue
  • 1 The Python Data Model
• II. Data Structures
  • 2 An Array of Sequences
  • 3 Dictionaries and Sets
  • 4 Text versus Bytes
• III. Functions as Objects
  • 5 First-Class Functions
  • 6 Design Patterns with First-Class Functions
  • 7 Function Decorators and Closures
• IV. Object-Oriented Idioms
  • 8 Object References, Mutability, and Recycling
  • 9 A Pythonic Object
  • 10 Sequence Hacking, Hashing, and Slicing
  • 11 Interfaces: From Protocols to ABCs
  • 12 Inheritance: For Good or For Worse
  • 13 Operator Overloading: Doing It Right
• V. Control Flow
  • 14 Iterables, Iterators, and Generators
  • 15 Context Managers and else Blocks
  • 16 Coroutines
  • 17 Concurrency with Futures
  • 18 Concurrency with asyncio
• VI. Metaprogramming
  • 19 Dynamic Attributes and Properties
  • 20 Attribute Descriptors
  • 21 Class Metaprogramming
• Afterword
• A. Support Scripts
• Python Jargon

Getting the Example Source

git clone https://github.com/fluentpython/example-code example_source_v1
git clone https://github.com/fluentpython/example-code-2e example_source_v2

Credits and References

• Fluent Python, the site
  • https://www.fluentpython.com/
  • https://github.com/fluentpython/book-site
• Fluent Python
  • amazon
  • O’Reilly
  • goodreads
  • examples
• Fluent Python, 2nd Edition
  • O’Reilly
  • examples