Programming Python 3, Second Edition, brings together all the knowledge you need to write any program, using third-party Python 3 library, or standards, and create new library modules on your own. Summerfield draws on his many years of Python experience to share further insights into Python 3 development you will not find anywhere else. Coverage includes Developed in Python using a procedural, object, and the functional programming paradigm Create custom packages and modules to Write and read binary, text, and XML files, including optional compression, random access, and text and XML parsing Leveraging advanced data types, collections, control structures, The spread of the workload and program functions in several processes and threads Programming SQL database and a key - value DBM files Debugging techniques and using Test-Driven Development to avoid bugs in the first place Utilizing Python regular expression mini-language and module Parsing techniques, including how to use PyParsing third party modules Ply Building and useful, efficient, GUI-based application programming technique information, including decorators generators, function and class, the context manager, description, abstract base classes, metaclasses, coroutines, and more Programming Python 3, Second Edition, serves as both tutorial and language reference. This edition covers Python 3.0 and 3.1, and because the language Python moratorium also applies to Python 3.2 has the same language as Python 3.1.