Python in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, 4/e (Paperback)

Python was recently ranked as today's most popular programming language on the TIOBE index, thanks to its broad applicability to design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and maintenance. With this updated fourth edition, you'll learn how to get the most out of Python, whether you're a professional programmer or someone who needs this language to solve problems in a particular field.

Carefully curated by recognized experts in Python, this new edition focuses on version 3.10, bringing this seminal work on the Python language fully up to date on five version releases, including preview coverage of upcoming 3.11 features.

This handy guide will help you:

- Learn how Python represents data and program as objects
- Understand the value and uses of type annotations
- Examine which language features appeared in which recent versions
- Discover how to use modern Python idiomatically
- Learn ways to structure Python projects appropriately
- Understand how to debug Python code

最近，Python在TIOBE指數中被評為當今最受歡迎的程式語言，這要歸功於它廣泛的應用範圍，從設計和原型開發到測試、部署和維護。這本更新的第四版將教你如何充分利用Python，無論你是專業的程式設計師還是需要這種語言來解決特定領域問題的人。

這本新版由Python領域的知名專家精心編輯，重點關注3.10版本，使這本關於Python語言的重要著作完全更新到最新的五個版本，包括對即將推出的3.11功能的預覽。

這本實用指南將幫助你：
- 學習Python如何將資料和程式表示為物件
- 理解型別註釋的價值和用途
- 檢視哪些語言特性出現在最近的哪些版本中
- 發現如何以現代化的方式使用Python
- 學習適當地結構化Python專案的方法
- 理解如何除錯Python程式碼

Alex Martelli has been programming for 40 years, mainly in Python for the recent half of that time. He wrote the first two editions of Python in a Nutshell, and co-authored the first two editions of the Python Cookbook and the third edition of Python in a Nutshell. He is a PSF Fellow and Core Committer, and won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award and the 2006 Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to the Python community. He is active on Stack Overflow and a frequent speaker at technical conferences. He's been living in Silicon Valley with his wife Anna for over 16 years, and working at Google throughout this time, currently as Senior Staff Engineer leading long tail tech support for Google Cloud.

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft is a PSF Fellow and winner of the 2013 Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to the Python community. She co-authored the second edition of the Python Cookbook and 3rd edition of Python in a Nutshell. She has been a technical reviewer for many Python books and is a regular speaker and track chair at technical conferences. Anna lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Alex, two dogs, one cat, and several chickens.

Passionate about programming and community, Steve Holden has worked with computers since 1967 and started using Python at version 1.4 in 1995. He has since written about Python, created instructor-led training, delivered it to an international audience built 40 hours of video training for reluctant Python users. An Emeritus Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Steve served as a director of the Foundation for eight years and as its chairman for three; he created PyCon, the Python community's international conference series and was presented with the Simon Willison Award for services to the Python community. He lives in Hastings, England and works as Technical Architect for the UK Department for International Trade, where he is responsible for the systems that maintain and regulate the trading environment.

Paul McGuire has been programming for 40+ years, in languages ranging from FORTRAN to Pascal, PL/I, COBOL, Smalltalk, Java, C/C++/C#, and Tcl, settling on Python as his language-of-choice in 2001. He is the author and maintainer of the popular pyparsing module, as well as littletable and plusminus. Paul authored the O'Reilly Short Cut Getting Started with Pyparsing, and has written and edited articles for Python Magazine. He has also spoken at PyCon and at the Austin Python Users' Group, and is active on StackOverflow. Paul now lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and dog, and works for Indeed as a Site Reliability Engineer, helping people get jobs!

Alex Martelli已經從事程式設計40年，其中近一半的時間主要使用Python。他撰寫了《Python in a Nutshell》的前兩版，並共同撰寫了《Python Cookbook》的前兩版和《Python in a Nutshell》的第三版。他是PSF Fellow和核心貢獻者，並獲得了2002年Activators' Choice Award和2006年Frank Willison Memorial Award，以表彰他對Python社群的貢獻。他在Stack Overflow上活躍，並經常在技術會議上演講。他與妻子Anna在矽谷生活了16年以上，並在此期間一直在Google工作，目前擔任Google Cloud的高級技術支援主管。

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft是PSF Fellow，並獲得了2013年Frank Willison Memorial Award，以表彰她對Python社群的貢獻。她共同撰寫了《Python Cookbook》的第二版和《Python in a Nutshell》的第三版。她曾擔任多本Python書籍的技術審查員，並經常在技術會議上擔任演講者和軌道主席。Anna與丈夫Alex、兩隻狗、一隻貓和幾隻雞一起生活在矽谷。

Steve Holden對程式設計和社群充滿熱情，自1967年以來一直從事計算機工作，並在1995年的Python 1.4版本開始使用Python。他曾撰寫有關Python的文章，創建了面向國際觀眾的導師培訓課程，並為不情願使用Python的人建立了40小時的視頻培訓。作為Python Software Foundation的名譽會士，Steve擔任該基金會的董事長長達八年，並創建了Python社群的國際會議系列PyCon，並因對Python社群的貢獻而獲得了Simon Willison Award。他現居英國黑斯廷斯，擔任英國國際貿易部的技術架構師，負責維護和監管貿易環境的系統。

Paul McGuire從事程式設計40多年，使用的語言包括FORTRAN、Pascal、PL/I、COBOL、Smalltalk、Java、C/C++/C#和Tcl，並在2001年選擇Python作為他的首選語言。他是受歡迎的pyparsing模塊的作者和維護者，還創建了littletable和plusminus。Paul撰寫了O'Reilly Short Cut《Getting Started with Pyparsing》，並為Python Magazine撰寫和編輯文章。他還在PyCon和奧斯汀Python用戶組發表演講，並在StackOverflow上活躍。Paul現在與妻子和狗一起居住在德克薩斯州奧斯汀，並在Indeed擔任網站可靠性工程師，幫助人們找到工作！