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Where To Go From Here

❝ Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. ❞
— St. Augustine of Hippo (attributed)

Things to Read

Unfortunately, I can not write cover every facet of Python 3 in this book. Fortunately, there are many wonderful, freely available tutorials available elsewhere.

Decorators:

• Function Decorators by Ariel Ortiz
• More on Function Decorators by Ariel Ortiz
• Charming Python: Decorators make magic easy by David Mertz
• Function Definitions in the official Python documentation

Properties:

• The Python property builtin by Adam Gomaa
• Getters/Setters/Fuxors by Ryan Tomayko
• property() function in the official Python documentation

Descriptors:

• How-To Guide For Descriptors by Raymond Hettinger
• Charming Python: Python elegance and warts, Part 2 by David Mertz
• Python Descriptors by Mark Summerfield
• Invoking Descriptors in the official Python documentation

Threading & multiprocessing:

• threading module
• threading — Manage concurrent threads
• multiprocessing module
• multiprocessing — Manage processes like threads
• Python threads and the Global Interpreter Lock by Jesse Noller
• Inside the Python GIL (video) by David Beazley

Metaclasses:

• Metaclass programming in Python by David Mertz and Michele Simionato
• Metaclass programming in Python, Part 2 by David Mertz and Michele Simionato
• Metaclass programming in Python, Part 3 by David Mertz and Michele Simionato

In addition, Doug Hellman’s Python Module of the Week is a fantastic guide to many of the modules in the Python standard library.

Where To Look For Python 3-Compatible Code

As Python 3 is relatively new, there is a dearth of compatible libraries. Here are some of the places to look for code that works with Python 3.

• Python Package Index: list of Python 3 packages
• Python Cookbook: list of Python 3 recipes
• Google Project Hosting: list of projects tagged “python3”
• SourceForge: list of projects matching “Python 3”
• GitHub: list of projects matching “python3” (also, list of projects matching “python 3”)
• BitBucket: list of projects matching “python3” (and those matching “python 3”)

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