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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.

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