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.