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