Language
  • Python 3
Reading time
  • Approximately 33 days
What you will learn
  • Advanced Python Concepts
  • Web Development
  • Database
  • Numerical Programming and Data Mining
Author
  • Kenneth Reitz
Published
  • 7 years, 6 months ago

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python takes the journeyman Pythonista to true expertise. More than any other language, Python was created with the philosophy of simplicity and parsimony. Now 25 years old, Python has become the primary or secondary language (after SQL) for many business users. With popularity comes diversity—and possibly dilution.

This guide, collaboratively written by over a hundred members of the Python community, describes best practices currently used by package and application developers. Unlike other books for this audience, The Hitchhiker’s Guide is light on reusable code and heavier on design philosophy, directing the reader to excellent sources that already exist.

The author Kenneth Reitz has the following credentials.

  • Python Software Foundation Fellow, a major contributor to the language or its community
  • Prominent person behind the ubiquitous Python package requests
  • Prominent person behind the well known Python package pipenv
  • Prominent person behind the well known Python package requests-html