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- 1. Gems in thePython Standard Library Jason Scheirer
- 2. Cool stuff! • File formats • Compression • Algorithms and data structures • Networking • Package distribution • All built in!
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- 5. JSON • Simple python data structures to/from JSON strings • Use in conjunction with urllib2 for great success!
- 6. XML • Three options: - DOM (familiar to Javascript developers) - SAX (event driven, big data) - ElementTree (feels like Python)
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- 12. Compression • GZip compression - • ZipFile - Access zip file’s contents - Put data in: - Get data out:
- 13. Algorithms and datastructures
- 14. Algorithms and datastructures • : Functional programming • and : A great combination
- 15. Algorithms and datastructures
- 16. Algorithms and datastructures • : Useful data structures • • (you probably want this a LOT)
- 17. Algorithms and datastructures • : C-style data structures • Equivalent to:
- 18. Algorithms and datastructures • : Memory-efficient homogenous arrays • You probably want , but this is nice too
- 19. Networking • module for low-level TCP programming • Probably care more about HTTP though
- 20. Networking (HTTP) • Kind of messy organization in Python 2.X • Fetching: • Parsing:
- 21. Package distribution • Distutils • You can provide Windows installers (.exe or .msi) for your code libraries • Semi-automatic compilation of C/C++ libraries
- 22. Package distribution • Layout: • • Setup.py:
- 23. Package distribution • • Setup.py:
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