Python 201 is the Featured Book on Leanpub Today

Leanpub is featuring my second book on their homepage today:

You can get the book for 50% off until tomorrow by using the following link: http://leanpub.com/python201/c/50percent

Python 201 covers the following topics:

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
• Chapter 16 – super
• Chapter 17 – descriptors (magic methods)
• Chapter 18 – Scope (local, global and the new non_local)

Part III – Web

• Chapter 19 – Web scraping
• Chapter 20 – Working with web APIs
• Chapter 21 – ftplib
• Chapter 22 – urllib / httplib (client / server)

Part IV – Testing

• Chapter 23 – Doctest
• Chapter 24 – unittest
• Chapter 25 – mock
• Chapter 26 – coverage.py