| | | Copyright |
| | | About the Author |
| | | Acknowledgments |
| | | Introduction |
| | | Chapter 1. Understanding Python |
| | | | Why Use Python? |
| | | | Invoking the Interpreter |
| | | | Built-In Types |
| | | | Understanding Python Syntax |
| | | | Python Objects, Modules, Classes, and Functions |
| | | | Error Handling |
| | | | Using System Tools |
| | | Chapter 2. Manipulating Strings |
| | | | Comparing Strings |
| | | | Joining Strings |
| | | | Splitting Strings |
| | | | Searching Strings for Substrings |
| | | | Search and Replace in Strings |
| | | | Searching Strings for Specific Endings/Beginnings |
| | | | Trimming Strings |
| | | | Aligning/Formatting Strings |
| | | | Executing Code Inside Strings |
| | | | Interpolating Variables Inside Strings |
| | | | Converting Unicode to Local Strings |
| | | Chapter 3. Managing Data Types |
| | | | Defining a List |
| | | | Accessing a List |
| | | | Slicing a List |
| | | | Adding and Removing Items in a List |
| | | | Sorting a List |
| | | | Using Tuples |
| | | | Constructing a Dictionary |
| | | | Adding a Value to a Dictionary |
| | | | Retrieving a Value from a Dictionary |
| | | | Slicing a Dictionary |
| | | | Swapping Keys for Values in a Dictionary |
| | | Chapter 4. Managing Files |
| | | | Opening and Closing Files |
| | | | Reading an Entire File |
| | | | Reading a Single Line from a File |
| | | | Accessing Each Word in a File |
| | | | Writing a File |
| | | | Determining the Number of Lines in a File |
| | | | Walking the Directory Tree |
| | | | Renaming Files |
| | | | Recursively Deleting Files and Subdirectories |
| | | | Searching for Files Based on Extension |
| | | | Creating a TAR File |
| | | | Extracting a File from a TAR File |
| | | | Adding Files to a ZIP File |
| | | | Retrieving Files from a ZIP File |
| | | Chapter 5. Managing Threads |
| | | | Starting a New Thread |
| | | | Creating and Exiting Threads |
| | | | Synchronizing Threads |
| | | | Implementing a Multithreaded Priority Queue |
| | | | Initiating a Timer-Interrupted Thread |
| | | Chapter 6. Managing Databases |
| | | | Adding Entries to a DBM File |
| | | | Retrieving Entries from a DBM File |
| | | | Updating Entries in a DBM File |
| | | | Pickling Objects to a File |
| | | | Unpickling Objects from a File |
| | | | Storing Objects in a Shelve File |
| | | | Retrieving Objects from a Shelve File |
| | | | Changing Objects in a Shelve File |
| | | | Connecting to a MySQL Database Server |
| | | | Creating a MySQL Database |
| | | | Adding Entries to a MySQL Database |
| | | | Retrieving Entries from a MySQL Database |
| | | Chapter 7. Implementing Internet Communication |
| | | | Opening a Server-Side Socket for Receiving Data |
| | | | Opening a Client-Side Socket for Sending Data |
| | | | Receiving Streaming Data Using the ServerSocket Module |
| | | | Sending Streaming Data |
| | | | Sending Email Using SMTP |
| | | | Retrieving Email from a POP3 Server |
| | | | Using Python to Fetch Files from an FTP Server |
| | | Chapter 8. Processing HTML |
| | | | Parsing URLs |
| | | | Opening HTML Documents |
| | | | Retrieving Links from HTML Documents |
| | | | Retrieving Images from HTML Documents |
| | | | Retrieving Text from HTML Documents |
| | | | Retrieving Cookies in HTML Documents |
| | | | Adding Quotes to Attribute Values in HTML Documents |
| | | Chapter 9. Processing XML |
| | | | Loading an XML Document |
| | | | Checking for Well-Formed XML Documents |
| | | | Accessing Child Nodes |
| | | | Accessing Element Attributes |
| | | | Adding a Node to a DOM Tree |
| | | | Removing a Node from a DOM Tree |
| | | | Searching XML Documents |
| | | | Extracting Text from XML Documents |
| | | | Parsing XML Tags |
| | | Chapter 10. Programming Web Services |
| | | | Adding HTML to Web Pages Using CGI Scripts |
| | | | Processing Parameters Passed to CGI Scripts |
| | | | Creating Self-Posting CGI Scripts |
| | | | Allowing Users to Upload Files via CGI Scripts |
| | | | Creating an HTTP Server to Handle GET Requests |
| | | | Creating an HTTP Server to Handle POST Requests |
| | | | Creating an HTTP Server to Process CGI Scripts |
| | | | Sending an HTTP GET Request from a Python Script |
| | | | Sending an HTTP POST Request from a Python Script |
| | | | Creating an XML-RPC Server |
| | | | Creating an XML-RPC Client |
| | | | Using SOAPpy to Access SOAP Web Services Through a WSDL File |
| | | Index |
