The os.path to Knowledge

This chapter begins our look at ways to apply Python to real programming tasks. In this and the following chapters, we'll see how to use Python to write system tools, graphical user interfaces, database applications, Internet scripts, web sites, and more. Along the way we'll also study larger Python programming concepts in action: code reuse, maintainability, object-oriented programming, and so on.

In this first part of the book, we begin our Python programming tour by exploring the systems application domain -- scripts that deal with files, programs, and the environment surrounding a program in general. Although the examples in this domain focus on particular kinds of tasks, the techniques they employ will prove to be useful in later parts of the book as well. In other words, you should begin your journey here, unless you already are a Python systems programming wizard.

Introducing Python

Part I: System Interfaces

System Tools

Parallel System Tools

Larger System Examples I

Larger System Examples II

Part II: GUI Programming

Graphical User Interfaces

A Tkinter Tour, Part 1

A Tkinter Tour, Part 2

Larger GUI Examples

Part III: Internet Scripting

Network Scripting

Client-Side Scripting

Server-Side Scripting

Larger Web Site Examples I

Larger Web Site Examples II

Advanced Internet Topics

Part IV: Assorted Topics

Databases and Persistence

Data Structures

Text and Language

Part V: Integration

Extending Python

Embedding Python

VI: The End

Conclusion Python and the Development Cycle



Programming Python
Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 1435455002
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 245

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