You're reading from Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition Master Python by learning the best coding practices and advanced programming concepts

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071109

Length 630 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (3):

Michał Jaworski

Tarek Ziade

Ziadé

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Current Status of Python

2. Modern Python Development Environments FREE CHAPTER

3. New Things in Python

4. Python in Comparison with Other Languages

5. Interfaces, Patterns, and Modularity

6. Concurrency

7. Event-Driven Programming

8. Elements of Metaprogramming

9. Bridging Python with C and C++

10. Testing and Quality Automation

11. Packaging and Distributing Python Code

12. Observing Application Behavior and Performance

13. Code Optimization

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

15. Index

Isolating the runtime environment

When you use pip to install a new package from PyPI, it will be installed into one of the available site-packages directories. The exact location of site-packages directories is specific to the operating system. You can inspect paths where Python will be searching for modules and packages by using the site module as a command as follows:

$ python3 -m site

The following is an example output of running python3 -m site on macOS:

sys.path = [ '/Users/swistakm', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python39.zip', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/Users/swistakm/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages', ] USER_BASE: '/Users/swistakm/Library...