The simplicity of Python allows you to quickly become productive, but it often means you may not utilize everything it has to offer. With the updated edition of this hands-on guide, you will learn how to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging the best ideas.

Don't waste time adapting Python to patterns you've learned in other languages. Discover and apply idiomatic Python 3 features that go beyond your previous experiences. Author Luciano Ramalho guides you through the fundamental language features and libraries of Python, showing you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable.

The second edition of Fluent Python includes comprehensive updates and covers:

• Special methods: The key to consistent behavior of Python objects

• Data structures: Sequences, dictionaries, sets, Unicode, and data classes

• Functions as objects: First-class functions, related design patterns, and type hints in function declarations

• Object-oriented idioms: Composition, inheritance, mixins, interfaces, operator overloading, static typing, and protocols

• Control flow: Context managers, generators, coroutines, async/await, and thread/process pools

• Metaprogramming: Properties, attribute descriptors, class decorators, and new metaprogramming hooks for classes that are simpler than metaclasses.