Deep Dive into Python Interpreter and Runtime

• The Python Language: a formal overview
• Internals of the Python Interpreter
• Python program runtime and execution
• Alternate Python interpreters
• Modules and Import Hooks
• Namespaces, Variables and Labels
• Closures and Scope
• Operators, Attribute Lookup, and Properties
• Statements, Expressions and Lambdas

Advanced Functional and OO programming in Python

• Meet the Python function
• Function properties
• Functions as strategies
• Switch maps
• Decorators and wrappers
• Proxies, memoization and currying
• Meet the Python class
• Class initialization
• Descriptors and Metaclasses
• Instance initialization and finalization
• __dict__ and __slots__
• __getattribute__ and class proxies
• Method Resolution Order (MRO)
• Evaluating Python Performance
• Performance tricks and traps
• Advanced Examples: Iterators
• Advanced Examples: Generators
• Advanced Examples: Context Managers

Modern, Scalable Python Programming

• Advanced I/O
• threading and green threads
• Synchronization primitives
• The GIL
• multiprocessing
• Generators and Coroutines
• Distributed Computing with Python
• Accessing OS services
• Idiomatic Python Applications
• SQL Access with SQLAlchemy
• XML Access with etree
• The Web: WSGI, Django and Genshi
• JSON Access with simplejson and django-piston
• Sphinx, doctest and project documentation