He was around 90 years of age and was living a good life, so this was a shock to his grandson, Zachary. An earl by the name of Xavier has supposedly committed suicide in his mansion at Wasdale Hall for no discernible reason whatsoever. Ditto for developing Python extensions and tools.Īll in all, Dead Simple Python probably isn’t a book for nudniks but makes a good starting point for those contemplating a serious Python effort and who need to start with the basics.This story takes place in modern day England. In that this book targets prospective Python developers, there’s also a section covering specific types of development tasks: application development, game development, web development, data science, and so forth. And in keeping with the book’s aim of getting readers ready to do real work, advanced topics such as concurrency and synchrony, metaclasses, threading and parallelism get another 130 pages of explanation. Data flow topics have over 160 pages of explanations. About 20 pages go toward project structure and another 30 on functions and lambdas. The book’s emphasis on doing real work comes out when it focuses on some of the more advanced aspects of Python. For example, McDonald takes the time to explain what makes Python a functional language, not obvious to those only familiar with procedural or object-oriented languages.
That said, there is a good amount of basic information in the book presented with few assumptions about the reader’s prior programming background. That’s probably why McDonald spends only about 50 pages on Python syntax and a little over 20 pages on Python variables. It is sometimes said that Python is easy to learn but hard to master. McDonald, a software engineer, has written a +700-page treatise on Python that is aimed at people who already are familiar with some other software language but who want to do something real with Python-and want to get up to speed with the language as quickly as possible. Readers may initially see the title of this book and think it entails a “for dummies” type presentation of Python.
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