Preface

Advanced Python Programming serves as a guide for you to take your Python skills to the next level. To beginners, Python is a great option for fast prototyping and software development due to its simple syntax, but some tend to lean toward other languages when they want to speed up and scale their code. However, this mindset is not necessarily correct. As this book will show us, Python comes with a wide range of support for optimizing, scaling, and overall high-performance computing.

This second edition includes both updated and new content from the first. Many chapters with overlapping materials have been combined to make a succinct, logical flow throughout the text. Further, a new chapter on JAX, the state-of-the-art high-performance ...

Get Advanced Python Programming - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.