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Copyright
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Praise for Core Python Programming
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Prentice Hall Core Series
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Part I: Core Python
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Chapter 1. Welcome to Python!
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Section 1.1. What Is Python?
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Section 1.2. Origins
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Section 1.3. Features
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Section 1.4. Downloading and Installing Python
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Section 1.5. Running Python
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Section 1.6. Python Documentation
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Section 1.7. Comparing Python
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Section 1.8. Other Implementations
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Section 1.9. Exercises
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Chapter 2. Getting Started
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Section 2.1. Program Output, the print Statement, and "Hello World!"
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Section 2.2. Program Input and the raw_input()Built-in Function
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Section 2.3. Comments
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Section 2.4. Operators
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Section 2.5. Variables and Assignment
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Section 2.6. Numbers
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Section 2.7. Strings
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Section 2.8. Lists and Tuples
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Section 2.9. Dictionaries
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Section 2.10. Code Blocks Use Indentation
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Section 2.11. if Statement
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Section 2.12. while Loop
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Section 2.13. for Loop and the range() Built-in Function
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Section 2.14. List Comprehensions
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Section 2.15. Files and the
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Section 2.16. Errors and Exceptions
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Section 2.17. Functions
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Section 2.18. Classes
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Section 2.19. Modules
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Section 2.20. Useful Functions
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Section 2.21. Exercises
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Chapter 3. Python Basics
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Section 3.1. Statements and Syntax
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Section 3.2. Variable Assignment
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Section 3.3. Identifiers
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Section 3.4. Basic Style Guidelines
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Section 3.5. Memory Management
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Section 3.6. First Python Programs
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Section 3.7. Related Modules/Developer Tools
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Section 3.8. Exercises
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Chapter 4. Python Objects
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Section 4.1. Python Objects
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Section 4.2. Standard Types
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Section 4.3. Other Built-in Types
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Section 4.4. Internal Types
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Section 4.5. Standard Type Operators
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Section 4.6. Standard Type Built-in Functions
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Section 4.7. Type Factory Functions
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Section 4.8. Categorizing the Standard Types
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Section 4.9. Unsupported Types
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Section 4.10. Exercises
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Chapter 5. Numbers
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Section 5.1. Introduction to Numbers
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Section 5.2. Integers
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Section 5.3. Double Precision Floating Point Numbers
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Section 5.4. Complex Numbers
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Section 5.5. Operators
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Section 5.6. Built-in and Factory Functions
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Section 5.7. Other Numeric Types
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Section 5.8. Related Modules
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Section 5.9. Exercises
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Chapter 6. Sequences: Strings, Lists, and Tuples
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Section 6.1. Sequences
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Section 6.2. Strings
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Section 6.3. Strings and Operators
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Section 6.4. String-Only Operators
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Section 6.5. Built-in Functions
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Section 6.6. String Built-in Methods
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Section 6.7. Special Features of Strings
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Section 6.8. Unicode
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Section 6.9. Related Modules
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Section 6.10. Summary of String Highlights
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Section 6.11. Lists
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Section 6.12. Operators
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Section 6.13. Built-in Functions
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Section 6.14. List Type Built-in Methods
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Section 6.15. Special Features of Lists
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Section 6.16. Tuples
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Section 6.17. Tuple Operators and Built-in Functions
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Section 6.18. Special Features of Tuples
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Section 6.19. Related Modules
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Section 6.20. *Copying Python Objects and Shallow and Deep Copies
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Section 6.21. Summary of Sequences
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Section 6.22. Exercises
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Chapter 7. Mapping and Set Types
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Section 7.1. Mapping Type: Dictionaries
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Section 7.2. Mapping Type Operators
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Section 7.3. Mapping Type Built-in and Factory Functions
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Section 7.4. Mapping Type Built-in Methods
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Section 7.5. Dictionary Keys
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Section 7.6. Set Types
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Section 7.7. Set Type Operators
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Section 7.8. Built-in Functions
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Section 7.9. Set Type Built-in Methods
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Section 7.10. Operator, Function/Method Summary Table for Set Types
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Section 7.11. Related Modules
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Section 7.12. Exercises
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Chapter 8. Conditionals and Loops
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Section 8.1. if Statement
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Section 8.2. else Statement
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Section 8.3. elif (aka else-if) Statement
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Section 8.4. Conditional Expressions (aka "the Ternary Operator")
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Section 8.5. while Statement
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Section 8.6. for Statement
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Section 8.7. break Statement
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Section 8.8. continue Statement
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Section 8.9. pass Statement
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Section 8.10. else Statement ... Take Two
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Section 8.11. Iterators and the iter() Function
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Section 8.12. List Comprehensions
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Section 8.13. Generator Expressions
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Section 8.14. Related Modules
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Section 8.15. Exercises
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Chapter 9. Files and Input/Output
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Section 9.1. File Objects
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Section 9.2. File Built-in Functions [open() and file()]
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Section 9.3. File Built-in Methods
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Section 9.4. File Built-in Attributes
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Section 9.5. Standard Files
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Section 9.6. Command-Line Arguments
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Section 9.7. File System
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Section 9.8. File Execution
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Section 9.9. Persistent Storage Modules
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Section 9.10. Related Modules
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Section 9.11. Exercises
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Chapter 10. Errors and Exceptions
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Section 10.1. What Are Exceptions?
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Section 10.2. Exceptions in Python
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Section 10.3. Detecting and Handling Exceptions
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Section 10.4. Context Management
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Section 10.5. *Exceptions as Strings
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Section 10.6. Raising Exceptions
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Section 10.7. Assertions
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Section 10.8. Standard Exceptions
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Section 10.9. *Creating Exceptions
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Section 10.10. Why Exceptions (Now)?
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Section 10.11. Why Exceptions at All?
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Section 10.12. Exceptions and the sys Module
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Section 10.13. Related Modules
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Section 10.14. Exercises
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Chapter 11. Functions and Functional Programming
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Section 11.1. What Are Functions?
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Section 11.2. Calling Functions
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Section 11.3. Creating Functions
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Section 11.4. Passing Functions
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Section 11.5. Formal Arguments
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Section 11.6. Variable-Length Arguments
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Section 11.7. Functional Programming
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Section 11.8. Variable Scope
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Section 11.9. *Recursion
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Section 11.10. Generators
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Section 11.11. Exercises
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Chapter 12. Modules
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Section 12.1. What Are Modules?
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Section 12.2. Modules and Files
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Section 12.3. Namespaces
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Section 12.4. Importing Modules
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Section 12.5. Features of Module Import
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Section 12.6. Module Built-in Functions
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Section 12.7. Packages
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Section 12.8. Other Features of Modules
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Section 12.9. Related Modules
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Section 12.10. Exercises
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Chapter 13. Object-Oriented Programming
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Section 13.1. Introduction
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Section 13.2. Object-Oriented Programming
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Section 13.3. Classes
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Section 13.4. Class Attributes
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Section 13.5. Instances
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Section 13.6. Instance Attributes
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Section 13.7. Binding and Method Invocation
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Section 13.8. Static Methods and Class Methods
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Section 13.9. Composition
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Section 13.10. Subclassing and Derivation
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Section 13.11. Inheritance
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Section 13.12. Built-in Functions for Classes, Instances, and Other Objects
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Section 13.13. Customizing Classes with Special Methods
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Section 13.14. Privacy
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Section 13.15. *Delegation
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Section 13.16. Advanced Features of New-Style Classes (Python 2.2+)
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Section 13.17. Related Modules and Documentation
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Section 13.18. Exercises
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Chapter 14. Execution Environment
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Section 14.1. Callable Objects
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Section 14.2. Code Objects
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Section 14.3. Executable Object Statements and Built-in Functions
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Section 14.4. Executing Other (Python) Programs
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Section 14.5. Executing Other (Non-Python) Programs
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Section 14.6. Restricted Execution
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Section 14.7. Terminating Execution
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Section 14.8. Miscellaneous Operating System Interface
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Section 14.9. Related Modules
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Section 14.10. Exercises
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Part II: Advanced Topics
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Chapter 15. Regular Expressions
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Section 15.1. Introduction/Motivation
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Section 15.2. Special Symbols and Characters
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Section 15.3. REs and Python
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Section 15.4. Regular Expressions Example
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Section 15.5. Exercises
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Chapter 16. Network Programming
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Section 16.1. Introduction
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Section 16.2. Sockets: Communication Endpoints
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Section 16.3. Network Programming in Python
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Section 16.4. *SocketServer Module
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Section 16.5. *Introduction to the Twisted Framework
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Section 16.6. Related Modules
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Section 16.7. Exercises
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Chapter 17. Internet Client Programming
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Section 17.1. What Are Internet Clients?
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Section 17.2. Transferring Files
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Section 17.3. Network News
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Section 17.4. Electronic Mail
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Section 17.5. Related Modules
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Section 17.6. Exercises
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Chapter 18. Multithreaded Programming
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Section 18.1. Introduction/Motivation
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Section 18.2. Threads and Processes
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Section 18.3. Python, Threads, and the Global Interpreter Lock
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Section 18.4. thread Module
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Section 18.5. threading Module
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Section 18.6. Related Modules
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Section 18.7. Exercises
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Chapter 19. GUI Programming
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Section 19.1. Introduction
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Section 19.2. Tkinter and Python Programming
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Section 19.3. Tkinter Examples
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Section 19.4. Brief Tour of Other GUIs
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Section 19.5. Related Modules and Other GUIs
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Section 19.6. Exercises
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Chapter 20. Web Programming
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Section 20.1. Introduction
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Section 20.2. Web Surfing with Python: Creating Simple Web Clients
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Section 20.3. Advanced Web Clients
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Section 20.4. CGI: Helping Web Servers Process Client Data
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Section 20.5. Building CGI Applications
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Section 20.6. Using Unicode with CGI
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Section 20.7. Advanced CGI
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Section 20.8. Web (HTTP) Servers
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Section 20.9. Related Modules
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Section 20.10. Exercises
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Chapter 21. Database Programming
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Section 21.1. Introduction
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Section 21.2. Python Database Application Programmer's Interface (DB-API)
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Section 21.3. Object-Relational Managers (ORMs)
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Section 21.4. Related Modules
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Section 21.5. Exercises
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Chapter 22. Extending Python
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Section 22.1. Introduction/Motivation
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Section 22.2. Extending Python by Writing Extensions
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Section 22.3. Related Topics
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Section 22.4. Exercises
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Chapter 23. Miscellaneous
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Section 23.1. Web Services
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Section 23.2. Programming Microsoft Office with Win32 COM
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Section 23.3. Python and Java Programming with Jython
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Section 23.4. Exercises
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Appendix A. Answers to Selected Exercises
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Appendix B. Reference Tables
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Python Keywords
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Python Standard Operators and Functions
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Numeric Type Operators and Functions
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Sequence Type Operators and Functions
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String Format Operator Conversion Symbols
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String Format Operator Directives
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String Type Built-in Methods
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List Type Built-in Methods
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Dictionary Type Built-in Methods
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Set Types Operators and Functions
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File Object Methods and Data Attriobutes
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Python Exceptions
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Special Methods for Classes
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Python Operator Summary
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Appendix 3. About the Author
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Index
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