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Preface

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Acknowledgments

My heartfelt thanks to everybody who helped me out on this book, both in the

first edition and in its current second edition. Many Python beginners, practitio-

ners, and experts have read drafts of parts of the book and have offered feedback

to help me make the book clear, precise, accurate, and readable. Out of all of

them, for the quality and quantity of their feedback and other help, I must single

out for special thanks my colleagues at Google, especially Neal Norwitz and

Mohsin Ahmed.

The first edition received indispensable help from Python experts in specific areas

(Aahz on threading, Itamar Shtull-Trauring on Twisted, Mike Orr on Cheetah,

Eric Jones and Paul Dubois on Numeric, and Tim Peters on threading, testing,

and optimization), a wonderful group of technical reviewers (Fred Drake, Magnus

Lie Hetland, Steve Holden, and Sue Giller), and the book’s editor, Paula

Ferguson. The second edition benefited from the efforts of editors Jonathan

Gennick and Mary O’Brien, and technical reviewers Ryan Alexander, Jeffery

Collins, and Mary Gardiner. I owe special thanks to the wonderful folks in the

O’Reilly Tools Group, who (both directly and personally, and through the helpful

tools they developed) helped me through several difficult technical problems.

As always, even though they’re back in my native Italy and my career with Google

has taken me to California, my thoughts go to my family: my children Flavia and

Lucio, my sister Elisabetta, and my father Lanfranco.

But the one, incredible individual to which my heart gushes out in gratitude, and

more than gratitude, is my wife, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, my co-author in the

second edition of the Python Cookbook, a fellow Python Software Foundation

member, and the harshest, most wonderful technical reviewer any author could

possibly dream of. Besides her innumerable direct contributions to this book,

Anna managed to create for me, out of thin air, enough peace, quiet, and free time

over the last year (despite my wonderful and challenging responsibilities as Uber

Tech Lead for Google) to make this book possible. Truly, this is her book at least

as much as it is mine.

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Python

Python is simple, but not simplistic. It adheres to the idea that if a language

behaves a certain way in some contexts, it should ideally work similarly in all

contexts. Python also follows the principle that a language should not have

“convenient” shortcuts, special cases, ad hoc exceptions, overly subtle distinc-

tions, or mysterious and tricky under-the-covers optimizations. A good language,

like any other designed artifact, must balance such general principles with taste,

common sense, and a high degree of practicality.

Python is a general-purpose programming language, so Python’s traits are useful

in just about any area of software development. There is no area where Python

cannot be part of an optimal solution. “Part” is an important word here; while

many developers find that Python fills all of their needs, Python does not have to

stand alone. Python programs can easily cooperate with a variety of other soft-

ware components, making it an ideal language for gluing together components

written in other languages.

Python is a very-high-level language (VHLL). This means that Python uses a

higher level of abstraction, conceptually farther from the underlying machine,

than do classic compiled languages such as C, C++, and Fortran, which are tradi-

tionally called high-level languages. Python is also simpler, faster to process, and

more regular than classic high-level languages. This affords high programmer

productivity and makes Python an attractive development tool. Good compilers

for classic compiled languages can often generate binary machine code that runs

much faster than Python code. However, in most cases, the performance of

Python-coded applications proves sufficient. When it doesn’t, you can apply the

optimization techniques covered in “Optimization” on page 474 to enhance your

program’s performance while keeping the benefits of high programming

productivity.

Newer languages such as Java and C# are slightly higher-level (farther from the

machine) than classic ones such as C and Fortran, and share some characteristics

of classic languages (such as the need to use declarations) as well as some of

VHLLs like Python (such as the use of portable bytecode as the compilation target

in typical implementations, and garbage collection to relieve programmers from

the need to manage memory). If you find you are more productive with Java or

C# than with C or Fortran, try Python (possibly in the Jython or IronPython

implementations, covered in “Python Implementations” on page 5) and become

even more productive.

In terms of language level, Python is comparable to other powerful VHLLs like

Perl or Ruby. The advantages of simplicity and regularity, however, remain on

Python’s side.

Python is an object-oriented programming language, but it lets you develop code

using both object-oriented and traditional procedural styles, and a touch of the

functional programming style, too, mixing and matching as your application

requires. Python’s object-oriented features are like those of C++, although they

are much simpler to use.

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