Functional Python Programming : Discover the Power of Functional Programming, Generator Functions, Lazy Evaluation, the Built-In Itertools Library, and Monads, 2nd Edition

**Create succinct and expressive implementations with functional programming in Python** Key Features* Learn how to choose between imperative and functional approaches based on expressiveness, clarity, and performance * Get familiar with complex concepts such as monads, concurrency, and immutability * Apply functional Python to common Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) programming problems Book DescriptionIf you're a Python developer who wants to discover how to take the power of functional programming (FP) and bring it into your own programs, then this book is essential for you, even if you know next to nothing about the paradigm. Starting with a general overview of functional concepts, you'll explore common functional features such as first-class and higher-order functions, pure functions, and more. You'll see how these are accomplished in Python 3.6 to give you the core foundations you'll build upon. After that, you'll discover common functional optimizations for Python to help your apps reach even higher speeds. You'll learn FP concepts such as lazy evaluation using Python's generator functions and expressions. Moving forward, you'll learn to design and implement decorators to create composite functions. You'll also explore data preparation techniques and data exploration in depth, and see how the Python standard library fits the functional programming model. Finally, to top off your journey into the world of functional Python, you'll at look at the PyMonad project and some larger examples to put everything into perspective. What you will learn* Use Python's generator functions and generator expressions to work with collections in a non-strict (or lazy) manner * Utilize Python library modules including itertools, functools, multiprocessing, and concurrent features to ensure efficient functional programs * Use Python strings with object-oriented suffix notation and prefix notation * Avoid stateful classes with families of tuples * Design and implement decorators to create composite functions * Use functions such as max(), min(), map(), filter(), and sorted() * Write higher-order functions Who This Book Is ForThis book is for Python developers who would like to perform Functional programming with Python. Python Programming knowledge is assumed. Table of Contents1. Understanding Functional Programming 2. Introducing essential functional concepts 3. Functions, Iterators and Generators 4. Working with Collections 5. Higher-Order Functions 6. Recursions and Reductions 7. Additional tuple techiques 8. The Itertools Module 9. More Itertools Techniques 10. The Functools Module 11. Decorator Design Techniques 12. The Multiprocessing and Threading Modules 13. The Operator Module 14. The PyMonad Library 15. A Functional Approach to Web Services 16. Optimizations and Improvements A practical approach to conquering the complexities of Microservices using the Python tooling ecosystemAbout This Book* A very useful guide for Python developers who are shifting to the new microservices-based development* A concise, up-to-date guide to building efficient and lightweight microservices in Python using Flask, Tox, and other tools* Learn to use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your servicesWho This Book Is ForThis book is for developers who have basic knowledge of Python, the command line, and HTTP-based application principles, and those who want to learn how to build, test, scale, and manage Python 3 microservices. No prior experience of writing microservices in Python is assumed. What You Will Learn* Explore what microservices are and how to design them* Use Python 3, Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practices* Learn how to use a TDD approach* Discover how to document your microservices* Configure and package your code in the best way* Interact with other services* Secure, monitor, and scale your services* Deploy your services in Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web ServicesIn DetailWe often deploy our web applications into the cloud, and our code needs to interact with many third-party services. An efficient way to build applications to do this is through microservices architecture. But, in practice, it's hard to get this right due to the complexity of all the pieces interacting with each other. This book will teach you how to overcome these issues and craft applications that are built as small standard units, using all the proven best practices and avoiding the usual traps. It's a practical book: you'll build everything using Python 3 and its amazing tooling ecosystem. You will understand the principles of TDD and apply them. You will use Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practices. You will learn how to secure connections between services, and how to script Nginx using Lua to build web application firewall features such as rate limiting. You will also familiarize yourself with Docker's role in microservices, and use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your services. This book will take you on a journey, ending with the creation of a complete Python application based on microservices. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with the fundamentals of building, designing, testing, and deploying your Python microservices. Style and approachThis book is an linear, easy-to-follow guide on how to best design, write, test, and deploy your microservices. It includes real-world examples that will help Python developers create their own Python microservice using the most efficient methods Practically and deeply understand concurrency in Python to write efficient programsAbout This Book* Build highly efficient, robust, and concurrent applications* Work through practical examples that will help you address the challenges of writing concurrent code* Improve the overall speed of execution in multiprocessor and multicore systems and keep them highly availableWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python developers who would like to get started with concurrent programming. Readers are expected to have a working knowledge of the Python language, as this book will build on these fundamentals concepts. What You Will Learn* Explore the concept of threading and multiprocessing in Python* Understand concurrency with threads* Manage exceptions in child threads* Handle the hardest part in a concurrent system - shared resources* Build concurrent systems with Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP)* Maintain all concurrent systems and master them* Apply reactive programming to build concurrent systems* Use GPU to solve specific problemsIn DetailPython is a very high level, general purpose language that is utilized heavily in fields such as data science and research, as well as being one of the top choices for general purpose programming for programmers around the world. It features a wide number of powerful, high and low-level libraries and frameworks that complement its delightful syntax and enable Python programmers to create. This book introduces some of the most popular libraries and frameworks and goes in-depth into how you can leverage these libraries for your own high-concurrent, highly-performant Python programs. We'll cover the fundamental concepts of concurrency needed to be able to write your own concurrent and parallel software systems in Python. The book will guide you down the path to mastering Python concurrency, giving you all the necessary hardware and theoretical knowledge. We'll cover concepts such as debugging and exception handling as well as some of the most popular libraries and frameworks that allow you to create event-driven and reactive systems. By the end of the book, you'll have learned the techniques to write incredibly efficient concurrent systems that follow best practices. Style and approachThis easy-to-follow guide teaches you new practices and techniques to optimize your code, and then moves toward more advanced ways to effectively write efficient Python code. Small and simple practical examples will help you test the concepts yourself, and you will be able to easily adapt them for any application Create succinct and expressive implementations with functional programming in Python About This Book Learn how to choose between imperative and functional approaches based on expressiveness, clarity, and performance Get familiar with complex concepts such as monads, concurrency, and immutability Apply functional Python to common Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) programming problems Who This Book Is For This book is for Python developers who would like to perform Functional programming with Python. Python Programming knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn Use Python's generator functions and generator expressions to work with collections in a non-strict (or lazy) manner Utilize Python library modules including itertools, functools, multiprocessing, and concurrent features to ensure efficient functional programs Use Python strings with object-oriented suffix notation and prefix notation Avoid stateful classes with families of tuples Design and implement decorators to create composite functions Use functions such as max(), min(), map(), filter(), and sorted() Write higher-order functions In Detail If you're a Python developer who wants to discover how to take the power of functional programming (FP) and bring it into your own programs, then this book is essential for you, even if you know next to nothing about the paradigm. Starting with a general overview of functional concepts, you'll explore common functional features such as first-class and higher-order functions, pure functions, and more. You'll see how these are accomplished in Python 3.6 to give you the core foundations you'll build upon. After that, you'll discover common functional optimizations for Python to help your apps reach even higher speeds. You'll learn FP concepts such as lazy evaluation using Python's generator functions and expressions. Moving forward, you'll learn to design and implement decorators to create composite functions. You'll also explore data preparation techniques and data exploration in depth, and see how the Python standard library fits the functional programming model. Finally, to top off your journey into the world of functional Python, you'll at look at the PyMonad project and some larger examples to put everything into perspective. Style and approach This book provides a general overview of functional concepts and then delves deeper into the functional features, showing you how the Python standard library fits the functional programming model. It also dem ... A practical approach to conquering the complexities of Microservices using the Python tooling ecosystem About This Book A very useful guide for Python developers who are shifting to the new microservices-based development A concise, up-to-date guide to building efficient and lightweight microservices in Python using Flask, Tox, and other tools Learn to use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your services Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who have basic knowledge of Python, the command line, and HTTP-based application principles, and those who want to learn how to build, test, scale, and manage Python 3 microservices. No prior experience of writing microservices in Python is assumed. What You Will Learn Explore what microservices are and how to design them Use Python 3, Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practices Learn how to use a TDD approach Discover how to document your microservices Configure and package your code in the best way Interact with other services Secure, monitor, and scale your services Deploy your services in Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services In Detail We often deploy our web applications into the cloud, and our code needs to interact with many third-party services. An efficient way to build applications to do this is through microservices architecture. But, in practice, it's hard to get this right due to the complexity of all the pieces interacting with each other. This book will teach you how to overcome these issues and craft applications that are built as small standard units, using all the proven best practices and avoiding the usual traps. It's a practical book: you'll build everything using Python 3 and its amazing tooling ecosystem. You will understand the principles of TDD and apply them. You will use Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practices. You will learn how to secure connections between services, and how to script Nginx using Lua to build web application firewall features such as rate limiting. You will also familiarize yourself with Docker's role in microservices, and use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your services. This book will take you on a journey, ending with the creation of a complete Python application based on microservices. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with the fundamentals of building, designing, testing, and deploying your Python microse.. Practically and deeply understand concurrency in Python to write efficient programs About This Book Build highly efficient, robust, and concurrent applications Work through practical examples that will help you address the challenges of writing concurrent code Improve the overall speed of execution in multiprocessor and multicore systems and keep them highly available Who This Book Is For This book is for Python developers who would like to get started with concurrent programming. Readers are expected to have a working knowledge of the Python language, as this book will build on these fundamentals concepts. What You Will Learn Explore the concept of threading and multiprocessing in Python Understand concurrency with threads Manage exceptions in child threads Handle the hardest part in a concurrent system - shared resources Build concurrent systems with Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Maintain all concurrent systems and master them Apply reactive programming to build concurrent systems Use GPU to solve specific problems In Detail Python is a very high level, general purpose language that is utilized heavily in fields such as data science and research, as well as being one of the top choices for general purpose programming for programmers around the world. It features a wide number of powerful, high and low-level libraries and frameworks that complement its delightful syntax and enable Python programmers to create. This book introduces some of the most popular libraries and frameworks and goes in-depth into how you can leverage these libraries for your own high-concurrent, highly-performant Python programs. We'll cover the fundamental concepts of concurrency needed to be able to write your own concurrent and parallel software systems in Python. The book will guide you down the path to mastering Python concurrency, giving you all the necessary hardware and theoretical knowledge. We'll cover concepts such as debugging and exception handling as well as some of the most popular libraries and frameworks that allow you to create event-driven and reactive systems. By the end of the book, you'll have learned the techniques to write incredibly efficient concurrent systems that follow best practices. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide teaches you new practices and techniques to optimize your code, and then moves toward more advanced ways to effectively write efficient Python code. Small and simple practical examples will help you test.. Annotation Create succinct and expressive implementations with functional programming in PythonKey Features Learn how to choose between imperative and functional approaches based on expressiveness, clarity, and performance Get familiar with complex concepts such as monads, concurrency, and immutability Apply functional Python to common Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) programming problemsBook DescriptionIf you're a Python developer who wants to discover how to take the power of functional programming (FP) and bring it into your own programs, then this book is essential for you, even if you know next to nothing about the paradigm. Starting with a general overview of functional concepts, you'll explore common functional features such as first-class and higher-order functions, pure functions, and more. You'll see how these are accomplished in Python 3.6 to give you the core foundations you'll build upon. After that, you'll discover common functional optimizations for Python to help your apps reach even higher speeds. You'll learn FP concepts such as lazy evaluation using Python's generator functions and expressions. Moving forward, you'll learn to design and implement decorators to create composite functions. You'll also explore data preparation techniques and data exploration in depth, and see how the Python standard library fits the functional programming model. Finally, to top off your journey into the world of functional Python, you'll at look at the PyMonad project and some larger examples to put everything into perspective. What you will learn Use Python's generator functions and generator expressions to work with collections in a non-strict (or lazy) manner Utilize Python library modules including itertools, functools, multiprocessing, and concurrent features to ensure efficient functional programs Use Python strings with object-oriented suffix notation and prefix notation Avoid stateful classes with families of tuples Design and implement decorators to create composite functions Use functions such as max(), min(), map(), filter(), and sorted() Write higher-order functionsWho this book is forThis book is for Python developers who would like to perform Functional programming with Python. Python Programming knowledge is assumed Python is an easy-to-learn and extensible programming language that offers a number of functional programming features. This practical guide demonstrates the Python implementation of a number of functional programming techniques and design patterns. 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