Python Cookbook - page 1
- Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition
- Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- The Design of the Book
- The Implementation of the Book
- Using the Code from This Book
- Audience
- Organization
- Further Reading
- Conventions Used in This Book
- How to Contact Us
- Safari Enabled
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Text
- Introduction
- Recipe1.1.Processing a String One Character at a Time
- Recipe1.2.Converting Between Characters and Numeric Codes
- Recipe1.3.Testing Whether an Object Is String-like
- Recipe1.4.Aligning Strings
- Recipe1.5.Trimming Space from the Ends of a String
- Recipe1.6.Combining Strings
- Recipe1.7.Reversing a String by Words or Characters
- Recipe1.8.Checking Whether a String Contains a Set of Characters
- Recipe1.9.Simplifying Usage of Strings translate Method
- Recipe1.10.Filtering a String for a Set of Characters
- Recipe1.11.Checking Whether a String Is Text or Binary
- Recipe1.12.Controlling Case
- Recipe1.13.Accessing Substrings
- Recipe1.14.Changing the Indentation of a Multiline String
- Recipe1.15.Expanding and Compressing Tabs
- Recipe1.16.Interpolating Variables in a String
- Recipe1.17.Interpolating Variables in a Stringin Python 2.4
- Recipe1.18.Replacing Multiple Patterns in a Single Pass
- Recipe1.19.Checking a String for Any of Multiple Endings
- Recipe1.20.Handling International Text with Unicode
- Recipe1.21.Converting Between Unicode and Plain Strings
- Recipe1.22.Printing Unicode Charactersto Standard Output
- Recipe1.23.Encoding Unicode Data for XML and HTML
- Recipe1.24.Making Some Strings Case-Insensitive
- Recipe1.25.Converting HTML Documents to Texton a Unix Terminal
- Chapter 2. Files
- Introduction
- Recipe2.1.Reading from a File
- Recipe2.2.Writing to a File
- Recipe2.3.Searching and Replacing Text in a File
- Recipe2.4.Reading a Specific Line from a File
- Recipe2.5.Counting Lines in a File
- Recipe2.6.Processing Every Word in a File
- Recipe2.7.Using Random-Access InputOutput
- Recipe2.8.Updating a Random-Access File
- Recipe2.9.Reading Data from zip Files
- Recipe2.10.Handling a zip File Inside a String
- Recipe2.11.Archiving a Tree of Files into a Compressed tar File
- Recipe2.12.Sending Binary Data to Standard Output Under Windows
- Recipe2.13.Using a C-like iostream Syntax
- Recipe2.14.Rewinding an Input File to the Beginning
- Recipe2.15.Adapting a File-like Object to a True File Object
- Recipe2.16.Walking Directory Trees
- Recipe2.17.Swapping One File Extension for Another Throughout a Directory Tree
- Recipe2.18.Finding a File Given a Search Path
- Recipe2.19.Finding Files Given a Search Path and a Pattern
- Recipe2.20.Finding a File on the Python Search Path
- Recipe2.21.Dynamically Changing the PythonSearch Path
- Recipe2.22.Computing the Relative Path from One Directory to Another
- Recipe2.23.Reading an Unbuffered Character in a Cross-Platform Way
- Recipe2.24.Counting Pages of PDF Documents on Mac OS X
- Recipe2.25.Changing File Attributes on Windows
- Recipe2.26.Extracting Text from OpenOffice.org Documents
- Recipe2.27.Extracting Text from Microsoft Word Documents
- Recipe2.28.File Locking Using a Cross-Platform API
- Recipe2.29.Versioning Filenames
- Recipe2.30.Calculating CRC-64 Cyclic Redundancy Checks
- Chapter 3. Time and Money
- Introduction
- Recipe3.1.Calculating Yesterday and Tomorrow
- Recipe3.2.Finding Last Friday
- Recipe3.3.Calculating Time Periods in a Date Range
- Recipe3.4.Summing Durations of Songs
