David Beazley, Brian K. Jones.
Python Cookbook: 3rd edn.
O'Reilly. 2013
Inside, you’ll find complete recipes for more than a dozen topics, covering the core Python language as well as tasks common to a wide variety of application domains. Each recipe contains code samples you can use in your projects right away, along with a discussion about how and why the solution works.
Topics include:
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Strings and Text
• Numbers, Dates, and Times
• Iterators and Generators
• Files and l/O
• Data Encoding and Processing Functions
• Classes and Objects
• Metaprogramming
• Modules and Packages
• Network and Web Programming
• Concurrency
• Utility Scripting and System Administration
• Testing, Debugging, and Exceptions
• C Extensions