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Python in a Nutshell
By Alex Martelli

Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: March 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00188-6
Pages	: 654

Preface

How This Book Is Organized

Conventions Used in This Book

How to Contact Us

Acknowledgments

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

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

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. Dictionary Operations

Section 4.8. The print Statement

Section 4.9. Control Flow Statements

Section 4.10. Functions

Chapter 5. Object-Oriented Python

Section 5.1. Classic Classes and Instances

Section 5.2. New-Style Classes and Instances

Section 5.3. Special Methods

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 getopt Module

Section 8.5. The copy Module

Section 8.6. The bisect Module

Section 8.7. The UserList, UserDict, and UserString Modules

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. The os Module

Section 10.2. Filesystem Operations

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. Text Input and Output

Section 10.8. Richer-Text I/O

Section 10.9. Interactive Command Sessions

Section 10.10. Internationalization

Chapter 11. Persistence and Databases

Section 11.1. Serialization

Section 11.2. DBM Modules

Section 11.3. The Berkeley DB Module

Section 11.4. The Python Database API (DBAPI) 2.0

Chapter 12. Time Operations

Section 12.1. The time Module

Section 12.2. The sched Module

Section 12.3. The calendar Module

Section 12.4. The mx.DateTime Module

Chapter 13. Controlling Execution

Section 13.1. Dynamic Execution and the exec Statement

Section 13.2. Restricted Execution

Section 13.3. Internal Types

Section 13.4. Garbage Collection

Section 13.5. Termination Functions

Section 13.6. 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. The random Module

Section 15.4. The array Module

Section 15.5. The Numeric Package

Section 15.6. Array Objects

Section 15.7. Universal Functions (ufuncs)

Section 15.8. Optional Numeric Modules

Chapter 16. Tkinter GUIs

Section 16.1. Tkinter Fundamentals

Section 16.2. Widget Fundamentals

Section 16.3. Commonly Used Simple Widgets

Section 16.4. Container Widgets

Section 16.5. Menus

Section 16.6. The Text Widget

Section 16.7. The Canvas Widget

Section 16.8. Geometry Management

Section 16.9. Tkinter Events

Chapter 17. Testing, Debugging, and Optimizing

Section 17.1. Testing

Section 17.2. Debugging

Section 17.3. The warnings Module

Section 17.4. Optimization

Part IV: Network and Web Programming

Chapter 18. Client-Side Network Protocol Modules

Section 18.1. URL Access

Section 18.2. Email Protocols

Section 18.3. The HTTP and FTP Protocols

Section 18.4. Network News

Section 18.5. Telnet

Section 18.6. Distributed Computing

Chapter 19. Sockets and Server-Side Network Protocol Modules

Section 19.1. The socket Module

Section 19.2. The SocketServer Module

Section 19.3. Event-Driven Socket Programs

Chapter 20. CGI Scripting and Alternatives

Section 20.1. CGI in Python

Section 20.2. Cookies

Section 20.3. Other Server-Side Approaches

Chapter 21. MIME and Network Encodings

Section 21.1. Encoding Binary Data as Text

Section 21.2. MIME and Email Format Handling

Chapter 22. Structured Text: HTML

Section 22.1. The sgmllib Module

Section 22.2. The htmllib Module

Section 22.3. The HTMLParser Module

Section 22.4. Generating HTML

Chapter 23. Structured Text: XML

Section 23.1. An Overview of XML Parsing

Section 23.2. Parsing XML with SAX

Section 23.3. Parsing XML with DOM

Section 23.4. Changing and Generating XML

Part V: Extending and Embedding

Chapter 24. Extending and Embedding Classic Python

Section 24.1. Extending Python with Python's C API

Section 24.2. Extending Python Without Python's C API

Section 24.3. Embedding Python

Chapter 25. Extending and Embedding Jython

Section 25.1. Importing Java Packages in Jython

Section 25.2. Embedding Jython in Java

Section 25.3. Compiling Python into Java

Chapter 26. Distributing Extensions and Programs

Section 26.1. Python's distutils

Section 26.2. The py2exe Tool

Section 26.3. The Installer Tool

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