{ "item_title" : "Serious Pythonista", "item_author" : [" Sean Bradley "], "item_description" : "Python has a reputation.It's the language you can learn in a weekend.The one that reads like pseudocode.The one people recommend to beginners.And then something unexpected happens.The deeper you go, the more you realise how much you don't know.What seemed simple becomes subtle.What felt complete reveals hidden layers.You discover that Python isn't just a scripting language.It's a language with a philosophy, a data model, competing paradigms, and extraordinary flexibility.And this book will show you the way.Python is easy to start, and deep enough to spend years refining.This book is for the moment when you decide you don't just want to use Python. You want to understand it.You want to write code that is deliberate, structured, testable, maintainable.You want to know why something works, not just that it works.Inside these chapters, you'll move from standalone scripts to installable packages.You'll revisit syntax, data types, and control flow.Then push further into comprehensions, generators, functions, modules, and packages.You'll explore exception handling and file I/O, then step beneath the surface into the data model itself.You'll examine type hints and the evolving type system, decorators and metaprogramming, even metaclasses.You'll compare object-oriented and functional styles, and finish with testing and disciplined development practices.Many of these subjects could justify books of their own. Some may feel abstract. Some overlap. That's intentional.Python gives you options, and with options comes perspective.You don't need to read this book in order, and you don't need every concept today.Think of this as a reference you grow into and return to.I've seen every idea in this book used in real systems, by real teams, solving real problems.Developers may disagree on style. Paradigms may compete.But in the end, your users care about one thing: does it work?You can refactor style. You can refine structure. What matters is understanding your tools.By the end of this book, you won't just have learned more syntax.You'll have a deeper mental model of Python itself. Welcome _Serious Pythonista_.Sean Bradley", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/824/811/9798248112807_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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