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s.isdigit method
s.toupper method
samplesort algorithm
sanitise function
SAX API (XML parser)
SAX API, checking XML well-formedness
SAX parser, merging continuous text events with
scalars
sched module, command scheduling
Schwartzian Transform
scripts
     in Windows, running one instance of
     spawning editors from
search paths
     dynamically changing
     finding files in directories
searching
     for items in sorted sequence
     searching/replacing text in files
     using dictionaries for
Secure Shell [See SSH]
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS)
security, multithreaded programming
seek method
     random-access files
select method
select module
     capturing output and error streams from Unix shell command
selecting
self.something syntax
sequences
     accessing item-by-item
     adding items to while preserving sortedness
     finding subsequences in
     flexible access to
    items in
         getting first smallest
         selecting nth smallest
     lexicographical comparison of
     looping over items in
     nested, flattening
     performing membership tests on
     removing duplicates from
     sorted, searching for items in
     translating into C array
serializing code objects with sincemarshal
serializing data
     marshal module
     pickle and cPickle modules
serve_forever method
servers, LDAP
servlets, coding with Jython
Set data type
set method
__setattr__ method 2nd
     attribute settings
setdefault method
     adding entries to dictionaries
setdefault method, adding entries to dictionaries
sets module 2nd
     finding sets/unions of dictionaries
__setstate__ method
shebang (#!)
shelve module, mutating objects with
shortcuts in Python
signatures, methods with same
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
SimpleXMLRPCServer class
SimpleXMLRPCServer module 2nd 3rd
Simplified Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
sincemarshal module
Singleton Design Pattern 2nd
     alternative to
     avoiding with Borg class
Singletons
slash (/)
__slots__ method
     restricting attribute setting
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
snapshot method
SNTP (Simplified Network Time Protocol)
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
socket module 2nd
sort method 2nd 3rd 4th
     lists of strings
sorted function 2nd
sorting
     current state of
     dictionaries
     history of, in Python
     keys/indices based on corresponding values
     list of strings ignoring case
     lists of objects by object's attribute
     names and separating them by initials
     strings with embedded numbers
_sortkeyfunc function
sound system, on Windows, checking
SPARK parser generator
special methods
     class definitions
     delegating in proxies
     operations/built-in functions trying in specific order
split method
     processing words in files
     reading from files
splitext function
splitlines method
     reading from files
SQL
     as emerging database interface standard
     databases, XML representations stored in
     implentations of
SQLite
     storing BLOBs in
sqlite.encode, inserting BLOBs in SQLite databases
SSH (Secure Shell)
     performing remote logins using
SSL (Secure Socket Layer), tunneling through proxy
SSL clients, authenticating over HTTPS
SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security)
standard input, reading unbuffered characters
standard output
     printing Unicode to
     using printf to output to
start method 2nd
State Design Pattern
stopwatch, implementing in Tkinter
Strategy Design Pattern
streams, capturing from Unix shell command
strftime function
string module
     string filtering
string-formatting operator (%) 2nd 3rd
StringIO module 2nd
strings [See also text strings] [See also text strings]
     aligning
     checking for balanced parentheses
     extracting bytes from
     removing whitespace from
     sorting while ignoring case
     verifying valid numeric format
     with embedding numbers, sorting
     zip files in
strip method
strptime function
strset.translate
struct module
sub method, string substitutions
Subclass class
subclass method
subclass methods
subclassing
     Singletons and
substitute method
substrings, accessing
sum function
summing numbers with accuracy
super methods
     performing superclass delegation
superclass methods
superclasses
     calling __init__ method for
     delegation of
     using cooperative
SuperMixin class
superTuple function
__slots__ function
SWIG modules, using in multithreaded environment
Swing, viewing image from URL with
Sybase
synchronizing methods in objects
system administration
system_profiler command (Mac OS X)