Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame 
by Will McGugan
Like music and movies, video games are rapidly becoming an integral part of our lives. Over the years, you've yearned for every new gaming console, mastered each blockbuster within weeks after its release, and have even won a local gaming competition or two. But lately you've been spending a lot of time thinking about a game idea of your own, or are exploring the possibility of making a career of ...
Price: $7.85 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2007
by Sylvain Hellegouarch
CherryPy is a Python library for web development that allows developers to build web applications in the same way as any other object-oriented Python program. Enriched by several years of active development, it has become one of the most established toolkits for building solid and high-performance web applications in Python. CherryPy abstracts the complex low-level HTTP protocol into an easy-to-use interfac...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2007
Getting Started with Pyparsing
by Paul McGuire
Need to extract data from a text file or aweb page? Or do you want to make yourapplication more flexible with user-definedcommands or search strings? Doregular expressions and lex/yacc makeyour eyes blur and your brain hurt?Pyparsing could be the solution. Pyparsingis a pure-Python class library thatmakes it easy to build recursive-descentparsers quickly. There is no need tohandcraft your own parsing state ...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
Professional Linux Programming
by Jon Masters, Richard Blum
As Linux continues to grow in popularity, there has never been more of a need to understand how to develop for this platform. Rather than focusing on a particular language or development technique, Professional Linux Programming looks at the different development environments within Linux - the kernel, the desktop, and the web - and then demonstrates best practices, tools, and techniques for integrating app...
Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2007
Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
by Alex Martelli
This book offers Python programmers one place to look when they needhelp remembering or deciphering the syntax of this open source languageand its many powerful but scantily documented modules. Thiscomprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up the mostfrequently needed information - not just about the Python languageitself, but also the most frequently used parts of the standard libraryand the most...
Price: $4.18 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
by Guy Harrison, Steven Feuerstein
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming covers a lot of ground. The book starts with a thorough introduction to stored procedures programming and functions, covering the fundamentals of data types, operators, and using SQL in stored procedures. You'll learn how to build and maintain stored programs -- covering transactions, stored functions, and triggers -- and how to call and use MySQL-based stored procedu...
Price: $6.38 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
by Paul DuBois
Along with MySQL's popularity has come a flood of questions about solving specific problems, and that's where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples for programmers of all levels who don't have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problem...
Price: $4.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already ...
Price: $13.84 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
The Definitive Guide to SQLite
by Mike Owens
Traditional relational databases and embedded databases both have shortcomings that can leave a developer perplexed. So for many people, the solution resides in an open source embeddable database with an amazingly small footprint (less than 250 kilobytes). SQLite packs a powerful array of features and can handle databases as large as 2 terabytes. It offers a flexible set of datatypes and the ability to perf...
Price: $10.91 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2006
by Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher
Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. It is now being used by an increasing number of major organizations, including NASA and Google.Updated for Python 2.4, The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition offers a wealth of useful code for all Python programmers, not just advanced practit...
Price: $7.17 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2005