The second edition of Python 101 is completely rewritten from the ground up. In this book, you will learn the Python programming language and lots more.

This book is split up into four sections:

1. The Python Language
2. Intermediate Topics
3. Creating Sample Applications
4. Distributing Your Code

Following is how it will break down in more detail:

Part I - The Python Language

• 01 - Installation
• 02 - Python editors
• 03 - Python style guide / comment rules
• 04 - Integers and floats 
• 05 - Lists
• 06 - Tuples 
• 07 - Dictionaries
• 08 - Sets
• 09 - Strings
• 10 - Boolean
• 11 - Conditional statements
• 12 - Loops
• 13 - Comprehensions
• 14 - Exception Handling
• 15 - Files 
• 16 - Imports
• 17 - Functions
• 18 - Classes

In Part 2 - Intermediate Topics, you will then learn about some intermediate topics, such as:

• Introspection
• Pip
• Python virtual environments
• Threading
• Multiprocessing
• Debugging
• Decorators
• Profiling
• Testing
• Version Control (git)

In Part 3 - Creating Sample Applications, you will learn how to write sample applications:

• How to create a command line application (argparse)
• How to parse XML
• How to parse JSON
• How to Scrape a website
• How to Work with CSV files
• How to work with a database (sqlite)
• How to Create an Excel document
• How to Generate a PDF

Finally in Part 4 you will learn how distribute your code as an executable and as source.

Python 201 is the sequel to my first book, Python 101. If you already know the basics of Python and now you want to go to the next level, then this is the book for you! This book is for intermediate level Python programmers only. There won't be any beginner chapters here. This book is based on Python 3.

The book will be broken up into five parts. Here's how:

Part I - Intermediate Modules

Chapter 1 - The argparse module

Chapter 2 - The collections module

Chapter 3 - The contextlib module (Context Managers)

Chapter 4 - The functools module (Function overloading, caching, etc)

Chapter 5 - All about imports

Chapter 6 - The importlib module

Chapter 7 - The itertools module

Chapter 8 - The re module (An Intro to Regex in Python)

Chapter 9 - The typing module (Type Hinting)

Part II - Odds and Ends

Chapter 10 - generators / iterators

Chapter 11 - map, filter, reduce

Chapter 12 - unicode

Chapter 13 - benchmarking

Chapter 14 - encryption

Chapter 15 - Connecting to databases

Chapter 16 - super

Chapter 17 - descriptors (magic methods)

Chapter 18 - Scope (local, global and the new non_local)

Part III - Web

Chapter 19 - Web scraping

Chapter 20 - Working with web APIs

Chapter 21 - ftplib

Chapter 22 - urllib

Part IV - Testing

Chapter 23 - Doctest

Chapter 24 - unittest

Chapter 25 - mock

Chapter 26 - coverage.py

Part V - Concurrency

Chapter 27 - The asyncio module

Chapter 28 - The threading module

Chapter 29 - The multiprocessing module

Chapter 30 - The concurrent.futures module