Example code for the book Fluent Python, Second Edition by Luciano Ramalho (O'Reilly, 2022).
All chapters are undergoing review and updates, including significant rewrites in the chapters about concurrency in Part V.
New chapters in Fluent Python 2e are marked with 🆕.
🚨 This table of contents is subject to change at any time until the book goes to the printer.
Latest change: Old Part I—Prologue merged into new Part I—Data Structures; parts renumbered accordingly; chapter numbers unchanged.
| Part / Chapter # | Title | Directory | 1st ed. Chapter # |
|---|---|---|---|
| I – Data Structures | |||
| 1 | The Python Data Model | 01-data-model | 1 |
| 2 | An Array of Sequences | 02-array-seq | 2 |
| 3 | Dictionaries and Sets | 03-dict-set | 3 |
| 4 | Unicode Text versus Bytes | 04-text-byte | 4 |
| 5 | Data Class Builders | 05-data-classes | 🆕 |
| 6 | Object References, Mutability, and Recycling | 06-obj-ref | 8 |
| II – Functions as Objects | |||
| 7 | Funcions as First-Class Objects | 07-1class-func | 5 |
| 8 | Type Hints in Functions | 08-def-type-hints | 🆕 |
| 9 | Decorators and Closures | 09-closure-deco | 7 |
| 10 | Design Patterns with First-Class Functions | 10-dp-1class-func | 6 |
| III – Object-Oriented Idioms | |||
| 11 | A Pythonic Object | 11-pythonic-obj | 9 |
| 12 | Special Methods for Sequences | 12-seq-hacking | 10 |
| 13 | Interfaces, Protocols, and ABCs | 13-protocl-abc | 11 |
| 14 | Inheritance: For Better or For Worse | 14-inheritance | 12 |
| 15 | More About Type Hints | 15-more-types | 🆕 |
| 16 | Operator Overloading | 16-op-overloading | 13 |
| IV – Control Flow | |||
| 17 | Iterators, Generators, and Classic Coroutines | 17-it-generator | 14 |
| 18 | with, match, and else Blocks | 18-with-match | 15 |
| 19 | Concurrency Models in Python | 19-concurrency | 🆕 |
| 20 | Concurrent Executors | 20-executors | 17 |
| 21 | Asynchronous Programming | 21-async | 18 |
| V – Metaprogramming | |||
| 22 | Dynamic Attributes and Properties | 22-dyn-attr-prop | 19 |
| 23 | Attribute Descriptors | 23-descriptor | 20 |
| 24 | Class Metaprogramming | 24-class-metaprog | 21 |