Python Technical Handbook

This book is a technical tutorial by Lin Hsin-liang (online name Liang-ge-ge) for Python learners, balancing introductory and advanced material. Originally published by GOTOP Information in Taiwan, the simplified Chinese edition was brought out by China Water & Power Press and is commonly known as Python Technical Handbook. The book is based on Python 3.x (examples mainly use Python 3.8) and begins with setting up the environment, then moves through the hands-on path from REPL to IDE, built-in data types and operators, flow statements and functions, modules and classes, class inheritance, exception handling, the open() function and the io module, data structures, data persistence and exchange, common built-in modules (date and time, logging, regular expressions, files and directories), debugging, testing and performance, concurrency, parallelism and asynchrony, and finally closes with advanced topics—attribute control, decorators, metaclasses, relative imports, and generics. The author continues his "study notes/technical handbook" style: knowledge points are compact, illustrated with short example code, with no sprawling large projects; each chapter ends with a "key review," and most chapters include exercises to help readers check their understanding. Accompanying resources include source code, videos, and PPT slides, making it suitable for self-study or as course support material. The book runs about 430 pages and 710,000 characters, in 16mo paperback. It suits readers starting from zero who hope to eventually read the source code of frameworks and libraries.