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To compliment our ‘ten essential Python tips for beginners‘ and ‘ten more essential Python tips‘ features, we’ve compiled yet another collection of ten gems to make your Python experience that much more worthwhile…

This chapter is an excerpt from Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language , authored by Mark Summerfield, published in the Addison-Wesley Professional Developer’s Library, Dec. 2008, ISBN 0137129297, Copyright 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. For more info check out Summerfield’s new Digital Short Cut: Advanced Python 3 Programming Techniques

Quod Libet is a GTK music player written in Python with support for various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, MP4 and WMA. Quod Libet has a different interface and a slightly different approach compared to players like Rhythmbox or Banshee, for example.

According to wordnetweb.princeton.edu, Computer Science is “the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures”. It’s the study of computer architectures, languages, and mathematical structures as applied to the process of computing. So what have Campbell, et al produced in this book…a Computer Science textbook that teaches Python? Kind of. Imagine you wanted to learn how the computer is used in the various scientific disciples. Further, you wanted to learn how computer programs and programming is used in this context to construct tools, perform investigations, and to solve problems. You also want to use a single programming language as your example. Welcome to “Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python”. Not a book about learning Python as such, but an introduction to the discipline of Computer Science with Python as your guide.