Python 3. The Comprehensive Guide

Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Johannes Ernesti, Peter Kaiser

This in-depth guide to Python 3 begins by helping readers install the language and understand its core syntax through interactive exploration. Early chapters cover variables, control structures, functions, and data types like lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets. Readers then move into file handling, error management, and object-oriented programming, building a solid foundation for real-world development.As the journey continues, the book introduces advanced concepts including decorators, generators, type hints, structural pattern matching, and context managers. It thoroughly explores the Python standard library, with practical applications in math, file systems, logging, regular expressions, parallel processing, and debugging. Readers also learn how to manage packages, virtual environments, and distributions.Later chapters shift to applied development—building GUIs with tkinter and PySide6, creating web applications with Django, and working with scientific tools like NumPy, pandas, and SciPy. The book concludes with insights on using alternative interpreters, localization, and migrating from Python 2 to 3. This resource grows with the reader, from basics to expert-level Python programming.

Python 3 Using ChatGPT / GPT-4. Harnessing AI for Efficient Python Programming

Mercury Learning and Information, Oswald Campesato

This book is for people who want to learn Python 3 and how to use ChatGPT with Python. It starts with an introduction to Python programming, covering data types, number formatting, Unicode handling, and text manipulation. The book then covers loops, conditional logic, reserved words, user input, exception management, and command-line arguments.The journey continues into Generative AI, discussing its distinction from Conversational AI. Popular platforms like ChatGPT and GPT-4 are explored, along with their strengths, weaknesses, and potential applications. The book shows how to generate Python 3 code samples via ChatGPT using the “Code Interpreter” plugin.Understanding these concepts is crucial for navigating Python and AI. This book transitions readers from basic Python programming to advanced AI applications, blending theory with practical skills. Companion files with code samples and figures enhance learning, making this an essential resource for mastering Python and ChatGPT.

Python: Advanced Guide to Artificial Intelligence. Expert machine learning systems and intelligent agents using Python

Giuseppe Bonaccorso, Armando Fandango, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani

This Learning Path is your complete guide to quickly getting to grips with popular machine learning algorithms. You'll be introduced to the most widely used algorithms in supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised machine learning, and learn how to use them in the best possible manner. Ranging from Bayesian models to the MCMC algorithm to Hidden Markov models, this Learning Path will teach you how to extract features from your dataset and perform dimensionality reduction by making use of Python-based libraries. You'll bring the use of TensorFlow and Keras to build deep learning models, using concepts such as transfer learning, generative adversarial networks, and deep reinforcement learning. Next, you'll learn the advanced features of TensorFlow1.x, such as distributed TensorFlow with TF clusters, deploy production models with TensorFlow Serving. You'll implement different techniques related to object classification, object detection, image segmentation, and more. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have obtained in-depth knowledge of TensorFlow, making you the go-to person for solving artificial intelligence problemsThis Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:• Mastering Machine Learning Algorithms by Giuseppe Bonaccorso• Mastering TensorFlow 1.x by Armando Fandango• Deep Learning for Computer Vision by Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani

Python: Advanced Predictive Analytics. Gain practical insights by exploiting data in your business to build advanced predictive modeling applications

Ashish Kumar, Joseph Babcock

Social Media and the Internet of Things have resulted in an avalanche of data. Data is powerful but not in its raw form; it needs to be processed and modeled, and Python is one of the most robust tools out there to do so. It has an array of packages for predictive modeling and a suite of IDEs to choose from. Using the Python programming language, analysts can use these sophisticated methods to build scalable analytic applications. This book is your guide to getting started with predictive analytics using Python.You'll balance both statistical and mathematical concepts, and implement them in Python using libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, and NumPy. Through case studies and code examples using popular open-source Python libraries, this book illustrates the complete development process for analytic applications. Covering a wide range of algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, as well as cutting-edge techniques such as deep learning, this book illustrates explains how these methods work. You will learn to choose the right approach for your problem and how to develop engaging visualizations to bring to life the insights of predictive modeling.Finally, you will learn best practices in predictive modeling, as well as the different applications of predictive modeling in the modern world. The course provides you with highly practical content from the following Packt books:1. Learning Predictive Analytics with Python2. Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python

Python Algorithmic Trading Cookbook. All the recipes you need to implement your own algorithmic trading strategies in Python

Pushpak Dagade

If you want to find out how you can build a solid foundation in algorithmic trading using Python, this cookbook is here to help.Starting by setting up the Python environment for trading and connectivity with brokers, you’ll then learn the important aspects of financial markets. As you progress, you’ll learn to fetch financial instruments, query and calculate various types of candles and historical data, and finally, compute and plot technical indicators. Next, you’ll learn how to place various types of orders, such as regular, bracket, and cover orders, and understand their state transitions. Later chapters will cover backtesting, paper trading, and finally real trading for the algorithmic strategies that you've created. You’ll even understand how to automate trading and find the right strategy for making effective decisions that would otherwise be impossible for human traders.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use Python libraries to conduct key tasks in the algorithmic trading ecosystem.Note: For demonstration, we're using Zerodha, an Indian Stock Market broker. If you're not an Indian resident, you won't be able to use Zerodha and therefore will not be able to test the examples directly. However, you can take inspiration from the book and apply the concepts across your preferred stock market broker of choice.

Python. An Introduction to Python Programming

Mercury Learning and Information, James R. Parker

This book introduces programming concepts using Python 3, designed for beginners and hobbyists with no prior programming experience. It covers loops, strings, functions, files, graphics, multimedia, algorithms, classes, and more. Many examples are based on video game development, making learning engaging and practical. The book uses a just-in-time presentation style, providing material when it's needed, and includes companion files with source code, exercises, projects, and figures.The course starts with an overview of modern computers and basic programming concepts. It progresses through topics like repetition, sequences, functions, file input/output, classes, graphics, data manipulation, and multimedia. The latter chapters focus on basic algorithms, programming for the sciences, writing good programs, parsing, and communicating using graphics and Pygame.By the end of the course, students will have a solid understanding of programming fundamentals, enhanced by practical applications in video game development. This approach not only makes learning enjoyable but also equips students with the skills needed for further studies in computer science and programming.

Python and Algorithmic Thinking for the Complete Beginner. Learn to think like a programmer by mastering Python programming and algorithmic foundations

Aristides Bouras

This course is meticulously designed to take beginners on a journey through the fascinating world of Python programming and algorithmic thinking. The initial chapters lay a strong foundation, starting with the basics of how computers operate, moving into Python programming, and familiarizing learners with integrated development environments like IDLE and Visual Studio Code.Further, the course delves into essential programming constructs such as variables, constants, input/output handling, and operators. You'll gain practical experience with trace tables, sequence control structures, and decision control structures through comprehensive exercises and examples. The curriculum emphasizes hands-on learning with chapters dedicated to manipulating numbers, strings, and understanding complex mathematical expressions. By mastering these concepts, you'll be well-prepared to tackle more advanced topics.The final chapters introduce you to object-oriented programming and file manipulation, rounding out your skill set. Throughout the course, practical tips and tricks are provided to enhance your coding efficiency and problem-solving skills. By the end of this course, you will have a robust understanding of Python programming and the ability to apply algorithmic thinking to solve real-world problems.

Python and SQL Bible. From Beginner to World Expert: Unleash the true potential of data analysis and manipulation

Cuantum Technologies LLC

Embark on a transformative journey with this course designed to equip you with robust Python and SQL skills. Starting with an introduction to Python, you'll delve into fundamental building blocks, control flow, functions, and object-oriented programming. As you progress, you'll master data structures, file I/O, exception handling, and the Python Standard Library, ensuring a solid foundation in Python.The course then transitions to SQL, beginning with an introduction and covering basics, and proceeding to advanced querying techniques. You'll learn about database administration and how Python integrates seamlessly with SQL, enhancing your data manipulation capabilities. By combining Python with SQLAlchemy, you'll perform advanced database operations and execute complex data analysis tasks, preparing you for real-world challenges.By the end of this course, you will have developed the expertise to utilize Python and SQL for scientific computing, data analysis, and database management. This comprehensive learning path ensures you can tackle diverse projects, from basic scripting to sophisticated data operations, making you a valuable asset in the tech industry. You'll also gain hands-on experience with real-world datasets, enhancing your problem-solving skills and boosting your confidence.

Python API Development Fundamentals. Develop a full-stack web application with Python and Flask

Jack Chan, Ray Chung, Jack Huang

Python is a flexible language that can be used for much more than just script development. By knowing the Python RESTful APIs work, you can build a powerful backend for web applications and mobile applications using Python.You'll take your first steps by building a simple API and learning how the frontend web interface can communicate with the backend. You'll also learn how to serialize and deserialize objects using the marshmallow library. Then, you'll learn how to authenticate and authorize users using Flask-JWT. You'll also learn how to enhance your APIs by adding useful features, such as email, image upload, searching, and pagination. You'll wrap up the whole book by deploying your APIs to the cloud.By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence and skill to leverage the power of RESTful APIs and Python to build efficient web applications.

Python Architecture Patterns. Master API design, event-driven structures, and package management in Python

Jaime Buelta

Developing large-scale systems that continuously grow in scale and complexity requires a thorough understanding of how software projects should be implemented. Software developers, architects, and technical management teams rely on high-level software design patterns such as microservices architecture, event-driven architecture, and the strategic patterns prescribed by domain-driven design (DDD) to make their work easier.This book covers these proven architecture design patterns with a forward-looking approach to help Python developers manage application complexity—and get the most value out of their test suites.Starting with the initial stages of design, you will learn about the main blocks and mental flow to use at the start of a project. The book covers various architectural patterns like microservices, web services, and event-driven structures and how to choose the one best suited to your project. Establishing a foundation of required concepts, you will progress into development, debugging, and testing to produce high-quality code that is ready for deployment. You will learn about ongoing operations on how to continue the task after the system is deployed to end users, as the software development lifecycle is never finished.By the end of this Python book, you will have developed architectural thinking: a different way of approaching software design, including making changes to ongoing systems.

Python Artificial Intelligence Projects for Beginners. Get up and running with Artificial Intelligence using 8 smart and exciting AI applications

Dr. Joshua Eckroth

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the newest technology that’s being employed among varied businesses, industries, and sectors. Python Artificial Intelligence Projects for Beginners demonstrates AI projects in Python, covering modern techniques that make up the world of Artificial Intelligence.This book begins with helping you to build your first prediction model using the popular Python library, scikit-learn. You will understand how to build a classifier using an effective machine learning technique, random forest, and decision trees. With exciting projects on predicting bird species, analyzing student performance data, song genre identification, and spam detection, you will learn the fundamentals and various algorithms and techniques that foster the development of these smart applications. In the concluding chapters, you will also understand deep learning and neural network mechanisms through these projects with the help of the Keras library.By the end of this book, you will be confident in building your own AI projects with Python and be ready to take on more advanced projects as you progress

Python Automation Cookbook. 75 Python automation recipes for web scraping; data wrangling; and Excel, report, and email processing - Second Edition

Jaime Buelta

In this updated and extended version of Python Automation Cookbook, each chapter now comprises the newest recipes and is revised to align with Python 3.8 and higher. The book includes three new chapters that focus on using Python for test automation, machine learning projects, and for working with messy data.This edition will enable you to develop a sharp understanding of the fundamentals required to automate business processes through real-world tasks, such as developing your first web scraping application, analyzing information to generate spreadsheet reports with graphs, and communicating with automatically generated emails.Once you grasp the basics, you will acquire the practical knowledge to create stunning graphs and charts using Matplotlib, generate rich graphics with relevant information, automate marketing campaigns, build machine learning projects, and execute debugging techniques.By the end of this book, you will be proficient in identifying monotonous tasks and resolving process inefficiencies to produce superior and reliable systems.

Python Automation Cookbook. Explore the world of automation using Python recipes that will enhance your skills

Jaime Buelta

Have you been doing the same old monotonous office work over and over again? Or have you been trying to find an easy way to make your life better by automating some of your repetitive tasks? Through a tried and tested approach, understand how to automate all the boring stuff using Python. The Python Automation Cookbook helps you develop a clear understanding of how to automate your business processes using Python, including detecting opportunities by scraping the web, analyzing information to generate automatic spreadsheets reports with graphs, and communicating with automatically generated emails. You’ll learn how to get notifications via text messages and run tasks while your mind is focused on other important activities, followed by understanding how to scan documents such as résumés. Once you’ve gotten familiar with the fundamentals, you’ll be introduced to the world of graphs, along with studying how to produce organized charts using Matplotlib. In addition to this, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of how to generate rich graphics showing relevant information. By the end of this book, you’ll have refined your skills by attaining a sound understanding of how to identify and correct problems to produce superior and reliable systems.

Python. Automatyzacja zadań. Jak efektywnie pracować z danymi, arkuszami Excela, raportami i e-mailami. Wydanie II

Jaime Buelta

Ile czasu marnujesz na wykonywanie monotonnych, długotrwałych zadań? Mowa o przeglądaniu setek stron czy plików, ręcznym przekształcaniu danych, rozsyłaniu e-maili, tworzeniu wykresów i wielu innych nudnych czynnościach. A gdyby tak zlecić tę pracę komputerowi, a samemu zająć się bardziej odpowiedzialnymi i kreatywnymi zadaniami? To jest do zrobienia — trzeba tylko poświęcić nieco czasu i odpowiednio wykorzystać dostępne rozwiązania, takie jak Python i imponująca kolekcja opracowanych dla tego języka narzędzi, bibliotek i rozszerzeń. Ta książka jest praktycznym zbiorem gotowych receptur, przeznaczonym dla początkujących użytkowników Pythona. Wydanie zostało dostosowane do wersji 3.8 języka, dodano też nowy materiał dotyczący automatyzowania testów, uczenia maszynowego i pracy z nieuporządkowanymi danymi. Dzięki lekturze zaczniesz automatyzować procesy biznesowe — napiszesz aplikację do pobierania informacji ze stron internetowych, tworzenia raportów z wykresami i diagramami na podstawie arkuszów kalkulacyjnych, a także automatycznego generowania e-maili. Będziesz również tworzyć zaawansowane grafiki z potrzebnymi informacjami, automatyzować kampanie marketingowe oraz stosować techniki testowania i debugowania. W książce znajdziesz receptury, dzięki którym: przekształcisz dane na potrzeby data science za pomocą biblioteki pandas zautomatyzujesz klasyfikowanie tekstu, filtrowanie e-maili i pobieranie informacji ze stron WWW użyjesz biblioteki Matplotlib do generowania wykresów, diagramów i map zautomatyzujesz różne zadania związane z generowaniem raportów nauczysz się pracy z Beautiful Soup, programem cron, a także z dziennikami i wyrażeniami regularnymi napiszesz bot dla komunikatora Telegram, czytnik kanałów RSS i model uczenia maszynowego Automatyzacja: monotonne zadania zostaw Pythonowi!

Python Business Intelligence Cookbook. Leverage the computational power of Python with more than 60 recipes that arm you with the required skills to make informed business decisions

Robert Dempsey, Stefan Urbanek, Saurabh Chhajed

The amount of data produced by businesses and devices is going nowhere but up. In this scenario, the major advantage of Python is that it's a general-purpose language and gives you a lot of flexibility in data structures. Python is an excellent tool for more specialized analysis tasks, and is powered with related libraries to process data streams, to visualize datasets, and to carry out scientific calculations. Using Python for business intelligence (BI) can help you solve tricky problems in one go.Rather than spending day after day scouring Internet forums for “how-to” information, here you’ll find more than 60 recipes that take you through the entire process of creating actionable intelligence from your raw data, no matter what shape or form it’s in. Within the first 30 minutes of opening this book, you’ll learn how to use the latest in Python and NoSQL databases to glean insights from data just waiting to be exploited.We’ll begin with a quick-fire introduction to Python for BI and show you what problems Python solves. From there, we move on to working with a predefined data set to extract data as per business requirements, using the Pandas library and MongoDB as our storage engine.Next, we will analyze data and perform transformations for BI with Python. Through this, you will gather insightful data that will help you make informed decisions for your business. The final part of the book will show you the most important task of BI—visualizing data by building stunning dashboards using Matplotlib, PyTables, and iPython Notebook.

Python, C++, JavaScript. Zadania z programowania

Marek Luliński, Gniewomir Sarbicki

Zadania z programowania? Zbiór programów do napisania! Pascal, C++, JavaScript i Python — oto zbiór języków, które przećwiczysz dzięki zadaniom w tej książce. Każdy z nich ma nieco inne zastosowania, wszystkie zaś są lub będą w najbliższym czasie wykorzystywane na lekcjach informatyki i na egzaminach, a ich zastosowanie w obliczu realnych problemów może wydatnie uprościć Ci życie. Jak najłatwiej i najszybciej nauczyć się programować w tych językach? Oczywiście dzięki ćwiczeniom! Z tą książką napiszesz konkretne programy rozwiązujące zadania numeryczne, logiczne i matematyczne — w każdym z powyższych języków. Z praktycznym zestawem zawartych tu zadań spróbujesz znaleźć permutacje zbioru, zaszyfrować tekst szyfrem Cezara, zbudować trójkąt Pascala i wskazać punkty kratowe wewnątrz koła o promieniu r. Napiszesz według własnego pomysłu programy odpowiadające na postawione w zadaniach pytania. Jeśli jesteś uczniem, będziesz mógł w ten sposób ćwiczyć nie tylko umiejętności programistyczne, lecz także matematyczne. Jeśli jesteś nauczycielem, znajdziesz tu wiele inspiracji dla swoich uczniów. Gotowy pogram będziesz mógł później porównać z rozwiązaniami proponowanymi przez autorów. Dogadaj się z komputerem — w każdym z czterech języków! --- UWAGA: Skala trudności zadań odpowiada poziomowi szkoły średniej.