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Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
By Alex Martelli
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: July 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-10046-9
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-610046-9
Pages: 712

Table of Contents

		Copyright
		Preface
		Part I:  Getting Started with Python
			Chapter 1.  Introduction to Python
				Section 1.1.  The Python Language
				Section 1.2.  The Python Standard Library and Extension Modules
				Section 1.3.  Python Implementations
				Section 1.4.  Python Development and Versions
				Section 1.5.  Python Resources
			Chapter 2.  Installation
				Section 2.1.  Installing Python from Source Code
				Section 2.2.  Installing Python from Binaries
				Section 2.3.  Installing Jython
				Section 2.4.  Installing IronPython
			Chapter 3.  The Python Interpreter
				Section 3.1.  The python Program
				Section 3.2.  Python Development Environments
				Section 3.3.  Running Python Programs
				Section 3.4.  The jython Interpreter
				Section 3.5.  The IronPython Interpreter
		Part II:  Core Python Language and Built-ins
			Chapter 4.  The Python Language
				Section 4.1.  Lexical Structure
				Section 4.2.  Data Types
				Section 4.3.  Variables and Other References
				Section 4.4.  Expressions and Operators
				Section 4.5.  Numeric Operations
				Section 4.6.  Sequence Operations
				Section 4.7.  Set Operations
				Section 4.8.  Dictionary Operations
				Section 4.9.  The print Statement
				Section 4.10.  Control Flow Statements
				Section 4.11.  Functions
			Chapter 5.  Object-Oriented Python
				Section 5.1.  Classes and Instances
				Section 5.2.  Special Methods
				Section 5.3.  Decorators
				Section 5.4.  Metaclasses
			Chapter 6.  Exceptions
				Section 6.1.  The try Statement
				Section 6.2.  Exception Propagation
				Section 6.3.  The raise Statement
				Section 6.4.  Exception Objects
				Section 6.5.  Custom Exception Classes
				Section 6.6.  Error-Checking Strategies
			Chapter 7.  Modules
				Section 7.1.  Module Objects
				Section 7.2.  Module Loading
				Section 7.3.  Packages
				Section 7.4.  The Distribution Utilities (distutils)
			Chapter 8.  Core Built-ins
				Section 8.1.  Built-in Types
				Section 8.2.  Built-in Functions
				Section 8.3.  The sys Module
				Section 8.4.  The copy Module
				Section 8.5.  The collections Module
				Section 8.6.  The functional Module
				Section 8.7.  The bisect Module
				Section 8.8.  The heapq Module
				Section 8.9.  The UserDict Module
				Section 8.10.  The optparse Module
				Section 8.11.  The itertools Module
			Chapter 9.  Strings and Regular Expressions
				Section 9.1.  Methods of String Objects
				Section 9.2.  The string Module
				Section 9.3.  String Formatting
				Section 9.4.  The pprint Module
				Section 9.5.  The repr Module
				Section 9.6.  Unicode
				Section 9.7.  Regular Expressions and the re Module
		Part III:  Python Library and Extension Modules
			Chapter 10.  File and Text Operations
				Section 10.1.  Other Chapters That Also Deal with Files
				Section 10.2.  Organization of This Chapter
				Section 10.3.  File Objects
				Section 10.4.  Auxiliary Modules for File I/O
				Section 10.5.  The StringIO and cStringIO Modules
				Section 10.6.  Compressed Files
				Section 10.7.  The os Module
				Section 10.8.  Filesystem Operations
				Section 10.9.  Text Input and Output
				Section 10.10.  Richer-Text I/O
				Section 10.11.  Interactive Command Sessions
				Section 10.12.  Internationalization
			Chapter 11.  Persistence and Databases
				Section 11.1.  Serialization
				Section 11.2.  DBM Modules
				Section 11.3.  Berkeley DB Interfacing
				Section 11.4.  The Python Database API (DBAPI) 2.0
			Chapter 12.  Time Operations
				Section 12.1.  The time Module
				Section 12.2.  The datetime Module
				Section 12.3.  The pytz Module
				Section 12.4.  The dateutil Module
				Section 12.5.  The sched Module
				Section 12.6.  The calendar Module
				Section 12.7.  The mx.DateTime Module
			Chapter 13.  Controlling Execution
				Section 13.1.  Dynamic Execution and the exec Statement
				Section 13.2.  Internal Types
				Section 13.3.  Garbage Collection
				Section 13.4.  Termination Functions
				Section 13.5.  Site and User Customization
			Chapter 14.  Threads and Processes
				Section 14.1.  Threads in Python
				Section 14.2.  The thread Module
				Section 14.3.  The Queue Module
				Section 14.4.  The threading Module
				Section 14.5.  Threaded Program Architecture
				Section 14.6.  Process Environment
				Section 14.7.  Running Other Programs
				Section 14.8.  The mmap Module
			Chapter 15.  Numeric Processing
				Section 15.1.  The math and cmath Modules
				Section 15.2.  The operator Module
				Section 15.3.  Random and Pseudorandom Numbers
				Section 15.4.  The decimal Module
				Section 15.5.  The gmpy Module
			Chapter 16.  Array Processing
				Section 16.1.  The array Module
				Section 16.2.  Extensions for Numeric Array Computation
				Section 16.3.  The Numeric Package
				Section 16.4.  Array Objects
				Section 16.5.  Universal Functions (ufuncs)
				Section 16.6.  Auxiliary Numeric Modules
			Chapter 17.  Tkinter GUIs
				Section 17.1.  Tkinter Fundamentals
				Section 17.2.  Widget Fundamentals
				Section 17.3.  Commonly Used Simple Widgets
				Section 17.4.  Container Widgets
				Section 17.5.  Menus
				Section 17.6.  The Text Widget
				Section 17.7.  The Canvas Widget
				Section 17.8.  Layout Management
				Section 17.9.  Tkinter Events
			Chapter 18.  Testing, Debugging, and Optimizing
				Section 18.1.  Testing
				Section 18.2.  Debugging
				Section 18.3.  The warnings Module
				Section 18.4.  Optimization
		Part IV:  Network and Web Programming
			Chapter 19.  Client-Side Network Protocol Modules
				Section 19.1.  URL Access
				Section 19.2.  Email Protocols
				Section 19.3.  The HTTP and FTP Protocols
				Section 19.4.  Network News
				Section 19.5.  Telnet
				Section 19.6.  Distributed Computing
				Section 19.7.  Other Protocols
			Chapter 20.  Sockets and Server-Side Network Protocol Modules
				Section 20.1.  The socket Module
				Section 20.2.  The SocketServer Module
				Section 20.3.  Event-Driven Socket Programs
			Chapter 21.  CGI Scripting and Alternatives
				Section 21.1.  CGI in Python
				Section 21.2.  Cookies
				Section 21.3.  Other Server-Side Approaches
			Chapter 22.  MIME and Network Encodings
				Section 22.1.  Encoding Binary Data as Text
				Section 22.2.  MIME and Email Format Handling
			Chapter 23.  Structured Text: HTML
				Section 23.1.  The sgmllib Module
				Section 23.2.  The htmllib Module
				Section 23.3.  The HTMLParser Module
				Section 23.4.  The BeautifulSoup Extension
				Section 23.5.  Generating HTML
			Chapter 24.  Structured Text: XML
				Section 24.1.  An Overview of XML Parsing
				Section 24.2.  Parsing XML with SAX
				Section 24.3.  Parsing XML with DOM
				Section 24.4.  Changing and Generating XML
		Part V:  Extending and Embedding
			Chapter 25.  Extending and Embedding Classic Python
				Section 25.1.  Extending Python with Python's C API
				Section 25.2.  Extending Python Without Python's C API
				Section 25.3.  Embedding Python
				Section 25.4.  Pyrex
			Chapter 26.  Extending and Embedding Jython
				Section 26.1.  Importing Java Packages in Jython
				Section 26.2.  Embedding Jython in Java
				Section 26.3.  Compiling Python into Java
			Chapter 27.  Distributing Extensions and Programs
				Section 27.1.  Python's distutils
				Section 27.2.  py2exe
				Section 27.3.  py2app
				Section 27.4.  cx_Freeze
				Section 27.5.  PyInstaller
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