Lean Python: Learn Just Enough Python to Build Useful Tools  
2016 | ISBN-10: 1484223845 | 91 pages | PDF | 7 MB]
                 
Learn only the essential aspects of Python without cluttering up your mind with features you may never use. This compact book is not a “best way to write code” type of book; rather, the author goes over his most-used functions, which are all you need to know as a beginner and some way beyond.
Lean Python takes 58 Python methods and functions and whittles them down to 15: as author Paul Gerrard says, “I haven’t found a need for the rest.”
What You’ll Learn

• Discover lean Python and how to learn just enough to build useful tools
• Use Python objects, program structure, I/O, modules and more
• Handle errors and exceptions
• Test your code
• Access the Web; do searching; and persist data
  

This book is aimed at three categories of reader: The experienced programmer – if you already know a programming language, this book gives you a shortcut to understanding the Python language and some of its design philosophy.
You work in IT and need a programming primer – you might be a tester who needs to have more informed technical discussions with programmers. Working through the examples will help you to appreciate the challenge of good programming.
First-timer – you want a first book on programming that you can assimilate quickly to help you decide whether programming is for you.
Table of Contents
1: Getting Started
2: Python Objects
3: Program Structure
4: Input and Output
5: Using Modules
6: Object Orientation
7: Exception and Error Handling
8: Testing Your Code
9: Accessing the Web
10: Searching
11: Databases
12: What Next?
Appendix