Mastering Python for Web: A Beginner’s Guide

Pdf Book Name: Mastering Python for Web: A Beginner’s Guide
Author: Sufyan bin Uzayr
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN-10, 13: 1032135670,9781032135670
Year: 2022
Pages: 303
Language: English
File size: 1 MB
File format: PDF,EPUB

Mastering Python for Web: A Beginner’s Guide Pdf Book Description:

Python is a general-purpose coding language that is used for other types of programming and software development. It is considered a great force in web application creation and systems management and a key driver of the explosion in big data analytics and machine intelligence. However, the most typical use case for Python is as a scripting and automation language. When creating scripts, Python is not considered a replacement for shell scripts or batch files but is used to automate interactions with web browsers or application graphical user interfaces (GUI). Thus, with Python, you can create both command-line and cross-platform GUI applications and deploy them as self contained executables. Sophisticated data analysis has become one of the most flourishing areas of IT, and the majority of popular software and data science libraries used for machine learning have Python interfaces, making it the most popular high-level command interface and numerical algorithms. Python’s third-party web frameworks provide fast and convenient ways to create everything from simple lines of code to full functioning, data-driven sites. Python’s latest versions have strong support for operations, enabling sites to handle tens of thousands of requests per second. Python also works as a highly efficient code generator, making it possible to write applications that manipulate their own functions that be difficult to implement in other languages.

This coding is often described as a “glue language,” meaning it can make disparate code interoperable again. Thus, if you have applications or program domains that you would like to link with each other, you can use Python for this task. Python is available in two different versions: Python 2 and Python 3. Python 2, the older branch, as of January 1, 2020, is no longer supported by its creators, the Python Software Foundation. Python 3, the current and future version of the language, has many updated features that were not included in Python 2, such as new concurrency controls, and a better interpreter. There used to be a lot of competition between the two, but since version 3 incorporated few important functions, it has won over all the Python fan base. Few of those changes in Python 3 included. At first, Python 3 approval was slowed for some time due to a lack of third-party library support. Because most Python libraries supported only Python 2, it made the transaction to version 3 time consuming. But over the last couple of years, the number of libraries compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3 has increased. Today, Python 3 is the best, up-to-date choice for new projects. Due to its simplicity, top technology organizations like Dropbox, Google, Mozilla, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Cisco have implemented Python for various purposes such as developing, scripting, generation, and software testing. It has also been an inspiration for many other coding languages such as Ruby, Cobra, Boo, CoffeeScript ECMAScript, Groovy, Swift Go, OCaml, and Julia. The success of Python rests on a strong standard library and a generous assortment of easily obtained and readily used libraries from third-party developers. Python’s standard library provides modules for common programming tasks like math, string handling, file and directory access, networking, asynchronous operations, threading, and multi-process management. Additionally, it also includes modules that manage common programming tasks such as reading and writing structured file formats, manipulating compressed files, and working with internet protocols. The default Python distribution also provides a cross-platform GUI library via Tkinter and an embedded access to the SQLite 3 database.