Want to retrieve data from the Internet? Create a chat server? Even serve Web applications or work with a database? Increasingly Python developers are turning to "asyncio", a relatively new part of the standard library. On the one hand, asyncio requires that you think differently about concurrency, and how your programs are designed. On the other hand, asyncio simplifies many aspects of concurrency that frustrate...

 Most Python courses (including my own) teach you how to write code: Data structures, functions, and objects. But most people don't want to write code. Rather, they want to create projects — libraries that they can distribute to their colleagues, and even standalone programs that can be distributed and run by others. This course will focus on how to create, structure, and distribute a Python project. Using such to...

 Functional programming is a set of techniques that have been around for many decades, and which are sometimes seen as old, dusty, and academic. But it turns out that functional techniques can be interesting, useful, and practical — making it possible to write code that's more elegant and less error prone.  Python isn't a functional language. But it does provide for a number of functional techniques. In this four-...

 You've been using Python's objects for a while already — you know how to create classes and methods, and how to use inheritance. But do you really know how Python's objects work? And do you know how to squeeze the most out of them? In this live, four-hour online class, I'll dive deep into Python's object system with you, to help you understand how things work, and how you can take advantage of them in your projec...

 As with many other modern languages, Python supports object-oriented programming. Moreover, Python makes it relatively straightforward to work with objects, thanks to a consistent approach, the fact that everything in the language is an object, simple syntax, and the removal of some confusing things. But for many developers, getting started with Python objects is hard and a bit daunting. If you're new to objects,...

 Long ago, computers could do only one thing at a time. But nowadays, we expect to ask our computer to do many things in parallel. To do this, programmers can typically choose between two main options — threads and processes. Python provides support for both threads and processes. But using them can be tricky, difficult, and a bit strange — thanks to a combination of Python syntax, limitations on what we can do wi...