Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming

Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming delves deeply into a host of subjects that you need to understand if you are to develop sophisticated real-world programs. Each topic is preceded by an introduction followed by more advanced topics, along with numerous examples, that take you to an advanced lev...

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Main Author Hunt, John
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Springer Nature 2019
Springer International Publishing AG
Springer
Edition1
SeriesUndergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Subjects
Computer programming, programs, data
Python (Computer program language)
Online AccessGet full text
ISBN9783030259433
3030259439
9783030259426
3030259420
DOI10.1007/978-3-031-40336-1

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Table of Contents:
  • 25.2.5 Obtaining Information About the Results
  • 21 Working with Excel Files -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Excel Files -- 21.3 The Openpyxl. Workbook Class -- 21.4 The Openpyxl. WorkSheet Objects -- 21.5 Working with Cells -- 21.6 Sample Excel File Creation Application -- 21.7 Loading a Workbook from an Excel File -- 21.8 Online Resources -- 21.9 Exercises -- 22 Regular Expressions in Python -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 What Are Regular Expressions? -- 22.3 Regular Expression Patterns -- 22.3.1 Pattern Metacharacters -- 22.3.2 Special Sequences -- 22.3.3 Sets -- 22.4 The Python re Module -- 22.5 Working with Python Regular Expressions -- 22.5.1 Using Raw Strings -- 22.5.2 Simple Example -- 22.5.3 The Match Object -- 22.5.4 The search() Function -- 22.5.5 The match() Function -- 22.5.6 The Difference Between Matching and Searching -- 22.5.7 The findall() Function -- 22.5.8 The finditer() Function -- 22.5.9 The split() Function -- 22.5.10 The sub() Function -- 22.5.11 The compile() Function -- 22.6 Online Resources -- 22.7 Exercises -- Database Access -- 23 Introduction to Databases -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 What Is a Database? -- 23.2.1 Data Relationships -- 23.2.2 The Database Schema -- 23.3 SQL and Databases -- 23.4 Data Manipulation Language -- 23.5 Transactions in Databases -- 23.6 Further Reading -- 24 Python DB-API -- 24.1 Accessing a Database from Python -- 24.2 The DB-API -- 24.2.1 The Connect Function -- 24.2.2 The Connection Object -- 24.2.3 The Cursor Object -- 24.2.4 Mappings from Database Types to Python Types -- 24.2.5 Generating Errors -- 24.2.6 Row Descriptions -- 24.3 Transactions in PyMySQL -- 24.4 Online Resources -- 25 PyMySQL Module -- 25.1 The PyMySQL Module -- 25.2 Working with the PyMySQL Module -- 25.2.1 Importing the Module -- 25.2.2 Connect to the Database -- 25.2.3 Obtaining the Cursor Object -- 25.2.4 Using the Cursor Object
  • 11.5 Online Resources -- 12 Building Games with pygame -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Display Surface -- 12.3 Events -- 12.3.1 Event Types -- 12.3.2 Event Information -- 12.3.3 The Event Queue -- 12.4 A First pygame Application -- 12.5 Further Concepts -- 12.6 A More Interactive pygame Application -- 12.7 Alternative Approach to Processing Input Devices -- 12.8 pygame Modules -- 12.9 Online Resources -- 13 StarshipMeteors pygame -- 13.1 Creating a Spaceship Game -- 13.2 The Main Game Class -- 13.3 The GameObject Class -- 13.4 Displaying the Starship -- 13.5 Moving the Spaceship -- 13.6 Adding a Meteor Class -- 13.7 Moving the Meteors -- 13.8 Identifying a Collision -- 13.9 Identifying a Win -- 13.10 Increasing the Number of Meteors -- 13.11 Pausing the Game -- 13.12 Displaying the Game Over Message -- 13.13 The StarshipMeteors Game -- 13.14 Online Resources -- 13.15 Exercises -- Testing -- 14 Introduction to Testing -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Types of Testing -- 14.3 What Should Be Tested? -- 14.4 Testing Software Systems -- 14.4.1 Unit Testing -- 14.4.2 Integration Testing -- 14.4.3 System Testing -- 14.4.4 Installation/Upgrade Testing -- 14.4.5 Smoke Tests -- 14.5 Automating Testing -- 14.6 Test Driven Development -- 14.6.1 The TDD Cycle -- 14.6.2 Test Complexity -- 14.6.3 Refactoring -- 14.7 Design for Testability -- 14.7.1 Testability Rules of Thumb -- 14.8 Online Resources -- 14.9 Book Resources -- 15 PyTest Testing Framework -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 What Is PyTest? -- 15.3 Setting Up PyTest -- 15.4 A Simple PyTest Example -- 15.5 Working with PyTest -- 15.6 Parameterised Tests -- 15.7 Online Resources -- 15.8 Exercises -- 16 Mocking for Testing -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Why Mock? -- 16.3 What Is Mocking? -- 16.4 Common Mocking Framework Concepts -- 16.5 Mocking Frameworks for Python -- 16.6 The unittest.mock Library
  • 16.6.1 Mock and Magic Mock Classes -- 16.6.2 The Patchers -- 16.6.3 Mocking Returned Objects -- 16.6.4 Validating Mocks Have Been Called -- 16.7 Mock and MagicMock Usage -- 16.7.1 Naming Your Mocks -- 16.7.2 Mock Classes -- 16.7.3 Attributes on Mock Classes -- 16.7.4 Mocking Constants -- 16.7.5 Mocking Properties -- 16.7.6 Raising Exceptions with Mocks -- 16.7.7 Applying Patch to Every Test Method -- 16.7.8 Using Patch as a Context Manager -- 16.8 Mock Where You Use It -- 16.9 Patch Order Issues -- 16.10 How Many Mocks? -- 16.11 Mocking Considerations -- 16.12 Online Resources -- 16.13 Exercises -- File Input/Output -- 17 Introduction to Files, Paths and IO -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 File Attributes -- 17.3 Paths -- 17.4 File Input/Output -- 17.5 Sequential Access Versus Random Access -- 17.6 Files and I/O in Python -- 17.7 Online Resources -- 18 Reading and Writing Files -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Obtaining References to Files -- 18.3 Reading Files -- 18.4 File Contents Iteration -- 18.5 Writing Data to Files -- 18.6 Using Files and with Statements -- 18.7 The Fileinput Module -- 18.8 Renaming Files -- 18.9 Deleting Files -- 18.10 Random Access Files -- 18.11 Directories -- 18.12 Temporary Files -- 18.13 Working with Paths -- 18.14 Online Resources -- 18.15 Exercise -- 19 Stream IO -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 What is a Stream? -- 19.3 Python Streams -- 19.4 IOBase -- 19.5 Raw IO/UnBuffered IO Classes -- 19.6 Binary IO/Buffered IO Classes -- 19.7 Text Stream Classes -- 19.8 Stream Properties -- 19.9 Closing Streams -- 19.10 Returning to the open() Function -- 19.11 Online Resources -- 19.12 Exercise -- 20 Working with CSV Files -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 CSV Files -- 20.2.1 The CSV Writer Class -- 20.2.2 The CSV Reader Class -- 20.2.3 The CSV DictWriter Class -- 20.2.4 The CSV DictReader Class -- 20.3 Online Resources -- 20.4 Exercises
  • Intro -- Preface -- Chapter Organisation -- What You Need -- Python Versions -- Useful Python Resources -- Conventions -- Example Code and Sample Solutions -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- Computer Graphics -- 2 Introduction to Computer Graphics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background -- 2.3 The Graphical Computer Era -- 2.4 Interactive and Non Interactive Graphics -- 2.5 Pixels -- 2.6 Bit Map Versus Vector Graphics -- 2.7 Buffering -- 2.8 Python and Computer Graphics -- 2.9 References -- 2.10 Online Resources -- 3 Python Turtle Graphics -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Turtle Graphics Library -- 3.2.1 The Turtle Module -- 3.2.2 Basic Turtle Graphics -- 3.2.3 Drawing Shapes -- 3.2.4 Filling Shapes -- 3.3 Other Graphics Libraries -- 3.4 3D Graphics -- 3.4.1 PyOpenGL -- 3.5 Online Resources -- 3.6 Exercises -- 4 Computer Generated Art -- 4.1 Creating Computer Art -- 4.2 A Computer Art Generator -- 4.3 Fractals in Python -- 4.3.1 The Koch Snowflake -- 4.3.2 Mandelbrot Set -- 4.4 Online Resources -- 4.5 Exercises -- 5 Introduction to Matplotlib -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Matplotlib -- 5.3 Plot Components -- 5.4 Matplotlib Architecture -- 5.4.1 Backend Layer -- 5.4.2 The Artist Layer -- 5.4.3 The Scripting Layer -- 5.5 Online Resources -- 6 Graphing with Matplotlib pyplot -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The pyplot API -- 6.3 Line Graphs -- 6.3.1 Coded Format Strings -- 6.4 Scatter Graph -- 6.4.1 When to Use Scatter Graphs -- 6.5 Pie Charts -- 6.5.1 Expanding Segments -- 6.5.2 When to Use Pie Charts -- 6.6 Bar Charts -- 6.6.1 Horizontal Bar Charts -- 6.6.2 Coloured Bars -- 6.6.3 Stacked Bar Charts -- 6.6.4 Grouped Bar Charts -- 6.7 Figures and Subplots -- 6.8 3D Graphs -- 6.9 Exercises -- 7 Graphical User Interfaces -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 GUIs and WIMPS -- 7.3 Windowing Frameworks for Python -- 7.3.1 Platform-Independent GUI Libraries
  • 7.3.2 Platform-Specific GUI Libraries -- 7.4 Online Resources -- 8 The wxPython GUI Library -- 8.1 The wxPython Library -- 8.1.1 wxPython Modules -- 8.1.2 Windows as Objects -- 8.1.3 A Simple Example -- 8.2 The wx.App Class -- 8.3 Window Classes -- 8.4 Widget/Control Classes -- 8.5 Dialogs -- 8.6 Arranging Widgets Within a Container -- 8.7 Drawing Graphics -- 8.8 Online Resources -- 8.9 Exercises -- 8.9.1 Simple GUI Application -- 9 Events in wxPython User Interfaces -- 9.1 Event Handling -- 9.2 Event Definitions -- 9.3 Types of Events -- 9.4 Binding an Event to an Event Handler -- 9.5 Implementing Event Handling -- 9.6 An Interactive wxPython GUI -- 9.7 Online Resources -- 9.8 Exercises -- 9.8.1 Simple GUI Application -- 9.8.2 GUI Interface to a Tic Tac Toe Game -- 10 PyDraw wxPython Example Application -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The PyDraw Application -- 10.3 The Structure of the Application -- 10.3.1 Model, View and Controller Architecture -- 10.3.2 PyDraw MVC Architecture -- 10.3.3 Additional Classes -- 10.3.4 Object Relationships -- 10.4 The Interactions Between Objects -- 10.4.1 The PyDrawApp -- 10.4.2 The PyDrawFrame Constructor -- 10.4.3 Changing the Application Mode -- 10.4.4 Adding a Graphic Object -- 10.5 The Classes -- 10.5.1 The PyDrawConstants Class -- 10.5.2 The PyDrawFrame Class -- 10.5.3 The PyDrawMenuBar Class -- 10.5.4 The PyDrawToolBar Class -- 10.5.5 The PyDrawController Class -- 10.5.6 The DrawingModel Class -- 10.5.7 The DrawingPanel Class -- 10.5.8 The DrawingController Class -- 10.5.9 The Figure Class -- 10.5.10 The Square Class -- 10.5.11 The Circle Class -- 10.5.12 The Line Class -- 10.5.13 The Text Class -- 10.6 References -- 10.7 Exercises -- Computer Games -- 11 Introduction to Games Programming -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Games Frameworks and Libraries -- 11.3 Python Games Development -- 11.4 Using Pygame