Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd Edition

ISBN: 1435455002
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2000
Pages: 245

Authors: Michael Dawson

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Introducing Python

• And Now for Something Completely Different
• The Life of Python
• The Compulsory Features List
• Whats Python Good For?
• Whats Python Not Good For?

Part I: System Interfaces

• Part I: System Interfaces

System Tools

• The os.path to Knowledge
• Why Python Here?
• System Scripting Overview
• The sys Module
• The os Module
• Script Execution Context
• Current Working Directory
• Command-Line Arguments
• Shell Environment Variables
• Standard Streams
• File Tools
• Directory Tools

Parallel System Tools

• Telling the Monkeys What to Do
• Forking Processes
• Threads
• Program Exits
• Interprocess Communication
• Pipes
• Signals
• Launching Programs on Windows
• Other System Tools

Larger System Examples I

• Splits and Joins and Alien Invasions
• Splitting and Joining Files
• Generating Forward-Link Web Pages
• A Regression Test Script
• Packing and Unpacking Files
• User-Friendly Program Launchers

Larger System Examples II

• The Greps of Wrath
• Fixing DOS Line Ends
• Fixing DOS Filenames
• Searching Directory Trees
• Visitor: Walking Trees Generically
• Copying Directory Trees
• Deleting Directory Trees
• Comparing Directory Trees

Part II: GUI Programming

• Part II: GUI Programming

Graphical User Interfaces

• Heres Looking at You, Kid
• Python GUI Development Options
• Tkinter Overview
• Climbing the GUI Learning Curve
• The End of the Tutorial
• Python/Tkinter for Tcl/Tk Converts

A Tkinter Tour, Part 1

• Widgets and Gadgets and GUIs, Oh My!
• Configuring Widget Appearance
• Toplevel Windows
• Dialogs
• Binding Events
• Message and Entry
• Checkbutton, Radiobutton, and Scale
• Running GUI Code Three Ways
• Images

A Tkinter Tour, Part 2

• On Todays Menu: Spam, Spam, and Spam
• Menus
• Listboxes and Scrollbars
• Text
• Canvas
• Grids
• Time Tools, Threads, and Animation
• The End of the Tour
• The PyDemos and PyGadgets Launchers

Larger GUI Examples

• Building a Better Mouse Trap
• Advanced GUI Coding Techniques
• Complete Program Examples
• PyEdit: A Text Editor Program/Object
• PyView: An Image and Notes Slideshow
• PyDraw: Painting and Moving Graphics
• PyClock: An Analog/Digital Clock Widget
• PyToe: A Tic-Tac-Toe Game Widget
• Where to Go from Here

Part III: Internet Scripting

• Part III: Internet Scripting

Network Scripting

• Tune in, Log on, and Drop out
• Plumbing the Internet
• Socket Programming
• Handling Multiple Clients
• A Simple Python File Server

Client-Side Scripting

• Socket to Me!
• Transferring Files over the Net
• Processing Internet Email
• The PyMailGui Email Client
• Other Client-Side Tools

Server-Side Scripting

• Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave
• Whats a Server-Side CGI Script?
• Climbing the CGI Learning Curve
• The Hello World Selector
• Coding for Maintainability
• More on HTML and URL Escapes
• Sending Files to Clients and Servers

Larger Web Site Examples I

• Things to Do When Visiting Chicago
• The PyMailCgi Web Site
• The Root Page
• Sending Mail by SMTP
• Reading POP Email
• Utility Modules
• CGI Script Trade-offs

Larger Web Site Examples II

• Typos Happen
• The PyErrata Web Site
• The Root Page
• Browsing PyErrata Reports
• Submitting PyErrata Reports
• PyErrata Database Interfaces
• Administrative Tools
• Designing for Reuse and Growth

Advanced Internet Topics

• Surfing on the Shoulders of Giants
• Zope: A Web Publishing Framework
• HTMLgen: Web Pages from Objects
• JPython ( Jython): Python for Java
• Grail: A Python-Based Web Browser
• Python Restricted Execution Mode
• XML Processing Tools
• Windows Web Scripting Extensions
• Python Server Pages
• Rolling Your Own Servers in Python

Part IV: Assorted Topics

• Part IV: Assorted Topics

Databases and Persistence

• Give Me an Order of Persistence, but Hold the Pickles
• Persistence Options in Python
• DBM Files
• Pickled Objects
• Shelve Files
• SQL Database Interfaces
• PyForm: A Persistent Object Viewer

Data Structures

• Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue; Lists Are Mutable, and So Is Class Foo
• Implementing Stacks
• Implementing Sets
• Binary Search Trees
• Graph Searching
• Reversing Sequences
• Permuting Sequences
• Sorting Sequences
• Data Structures Versus Python Built-ins
• PyTree: A Generic Tree Object Viewer

Text and Language

• See Jack Hack. Hack, Jack, Hack
• Strategies for Parsing Text in Python
• String Module Utilities
• Regular Expression Matching
• Parser Generators
• Hand-Coded Parsers
• PyCalc: A Calculator Program/Object

Part V: Integration

• Part V: Integration

Extending Python

• Extending Python
• I Am Lost at C
• C Extensions Overview
• A Simple C Extension Module
• The SWIG Integration Code Generator
• Wrapping C Environment Calls
• A C Extension Module String Stack
• A C Extension Type String Stack
• Wrapping C++ Classes with SWIG

Embedding Python

• Embedding Python
• Add Python. Mix Well. Repeat.
• C Embedding API Overview
• Basic Embedding Techniques
• Registering Callback Handler Objects
• Using Python Classes in C
• ppembed: A High-Level Embedding API
• Other Integration Topics

VI: The End

Conclusion Python and the Development Cycle

• Conclusion Python and the Development Cycle
• That s the End of the Book, Now Here s the Meaning of Life
• Something s Wrong with the Way We Program Computers
• The Gilligan Factor
• Doing the Right Thing
• Enter Python
• But What About That Bottleneck?
• On Sinking the Titanic
• So What s Python The Sequel
• In the Final Analysis
• Postscript to the Second Edition
• Appendix A Recent Python Changes
• Section A.1. Major Changes in 2.0
• Section A.2. Major Changes in 1.6
• Section A.3. Major Changes Between 1.3 and 1.5.2
• Appendix B Pragmatics
• Section B.1. Installing Python
• Section B.2. Book Examples Distribution
• Section B.3. Environment Configuration
• Section B.4. Running Python Programs
• Section B.5. Python Internet Resources
• Appendix C. Python Versus C++