Mike Driscoll: Python 201 Book Outline

Over the weekend, I spent some time rearranging ideas for my latest book such that I have have four specific sections of the book. Here they are:

Part I – Intermediate Modules

• Chapter 1 – The argparse module
• Chapter 2 – The collections module
• Chapter 3 – The contextlib module (Context Managers)
• Chapter 4 – The functools module (Function overloading, caching, etc)
• Chapter 5 – All about imports
• Chapter 6 – The importlib module
• Chapter 7 – The itertools module
• Chapter 8 – The re module (An Intro to Regex in Python)
• Chapter 9 – The typing module (Type Hinting)

Part II – Odds and Ends

• Chapter 10 – generators / iterators
• Chapter 11 – map, filter, reduce
• Chapter 12 – unicode
• Chapter 13 – benchmarking
• Chapter 14 – encryption
• Chapter 15 – Connecting to databases

Part III – Web

• Chapter 16 – Web scraping
• Chapter 17 – Working with web APIs
• Chapter 18 – ftplib
• Chapter 19 – urllib / httplib (client / server)

Part IV – Testing

• Chapter 20 – Doctest
• Chapter 21 – unittest
• Chapter 22 – mock
• Chapter 23 – coverage.py

I want to note that these are just the topics that will absolutely be included. I may add others. I will also be adding others should I reach my stretch goal. If you’re interested in getting early access to the book or just want to support the blog, you can do so at my Kickstarter for Python 201!