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C compiler, ISO-compliant, installing Python and 
C library 
    time module and 
C programming language, CPython and 
C++ programming language, extending Python with 
calcsize function (struct module) 
calculator 
calendar function (calendar module) 
calendar module 
    calendar function 
    firstweekday function 
    isleap function 
    leapdays function 
    month function 
    monthcalendar function 
    monthrange function 
    prcal function 
    prmonth function 
    setfirstweekday function 
    timegm function 
    weekday function 
calibrate method (Profile object) 
__call__ method
    PyObject object 
    special method 
call stack
    _getframe function 
    retrieving limit on depth of 
    setting limit on depth of 
    unwinding on exceptions 
callable function (built-in) 
callable types 
callLater method (reactor object) 
cancel method (scheduler object) 
cancelCallLater method (reactor object) 
Canvas class (Tkinter module) 
    bbox method 
    coords method 
    create_line method 
    create_polygon method 
    create_rectangle method 
    create_text method 
    delete method 
    gettags method 
    itemcget method 
    itemconfig method 
    tag_bind method 
    tag_unbind method 
canvas widget 
    lines 
    polygons 
    rectangles 
    text 
capitalize method (string object) 
caret (^)
    bitwise XOR 
    MULTILINE attribute 
    regular expressions  2nd 
case sensitivity 
    filesystems 
    regular expressions 
    strings  2nd 
    Windows os.environ keys 
ceil function
    cmath module 
    math module 
center method (string object) 
.cfg extension, customizing package installation 
cget method
    Font object 
    Widget object 
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) 
    xxx  [See also CGI scripting][See also CGI scripting]
cgi module 
    escape function 
    FieldStorage class 
CGI scripting  2nd 
    Content-Type header 
    cookies 
    error messages 
        cgitb module 
    HTML forms submission 
    output 
    scripts
        performance characteristics 
        Python, installing 
CGIHTTPServer module  2nd 
cgitb module 
    enable function 
    handle function 
char attribute (Event object) 
characters method (ContentHandler object) 
chdir function (os module) 
checkbox widgets 
Checkbutton class (Tkinter module) 
    deselect method 
    flash method 
    invoke method 
    select method 
    toggle method 
checkcache function (linecache module) 
Cheetah package 
    templating language 
Cheetah.Template module 
    Template class 
child widgets 
childNodes attribute (Node object) 
chmod function (os module) 
choice method (Random object) 
choose function (Numeric module) 
chr function (built-in) 
circular imports 
class body 
    attributes 
    class-private variables 
    docstrings 
    function definitions in 
class methods 
class object
    __bases__ attribute 
    __dict__ attribute 
    __doc__ attribute 
    __name__ attribute 
class statement 
class-level methods 
    class 
    static 
class-private variables 
classes 
    how metaclasses create 
    metaclasses of, how Python determines 
classes, classic 
    attribute references 
    bound methods 
    class body 
    class statement 
    inheritance 
    instances of 
    unbound methods 
classes, new-style 
    built-in object type 
    class-level methods 
    inheritance 
        cooperative superclass method calling 
        method resolution order 
    instances of 
        per-instance methods 
classic classes  [See classes, classic]
Classic Python  [See CPython]
classmethod type (built-in)  2nd 
clauses  2nd 
clear command (pdb module) 
clear method
    dictionary object 
    Event object 
clearcache function (linecache module) 
client_address method (BaseRequestHandler object) 
clients 
clip function (Numeric module) 
clock function (time module) 
close function (os module) 
close method
    bsddb module 
    Connection object 
    Cursor object 
    file object 
    fileinput module 
    HTMLParser object 
    HTTPConnection object 
    mmap object 
    sgmllib module 
    socket object 
    Telnet object 
    URL file-like object 
    XMLReader object 
    zipfile module 
closed attribute (file object) 
clrtobot method (Window object) 
clrtoeot method (Window object) 
cmath module 
    acos function 
    acosh function 
    asin function 
    asinh function 
    atan/atan2 functions 
    atanh function 
    ceil function 
    cos function 
    cosh function 
    exp function 
    fabs function 
    floor function 
    fmod function 
    frexp function 
    hypot function 
    ldexp function 
    log function 
    log10 function 
    modf function 
    pow function 
    sin function 
    sinh function 
    sqrt function 
    tan function 
Cmd class (cmd module) 
cmd module 
    attributes 
    Cmd class 
    cmdloop function 
    default function 
    do_help function 
    emptyline function 
    identchars attribute 
    intro attribute 
    lastcmd attribute 
    methods 
    onecmd function 
    postcmd function 
    postloop function 
    precmd function 
    preloop function 
    prompt attribute 
    use_rawinput attribute 
cmdloop function (cmd module) 
cmp function
    built-in  2nd 
    filecmp module 
    mx.DateTime module 
__cmp__ special method 
cmpfiles function (filecmp module) 
co_argcount attribute (code object) 
co_varnames attribute (code object) 
code object
    co_argcount attribute 
    co_varnames attribute 
    exec statement and 
codecs 
codecs module 
    EncodedFile function 
    open function 
coded_value attribute (Morsel object) 
coders-decoders (codecs) 
CodeWarrier Pro 7 C compiler 
coerce function (built-in) 
__coerce__ special method 
collect function (gc module) 
collect_incoming_data method (async_chat object) 
colon (:)
    compound statements 
    dictionaries 
    Unix directory paths 
COM 
    date epoch 
    extending Python with 
COMDate method (DateTime class) 
comma (,)
    dictionaries 
    functions 
    lists 
    plain assignment statements 
    tuples 
command attribute (HTTPServer object) 
command-line options, parsing 
comment attribute (zipfile module) 
comments  2nd 
commit method (Connection object) 
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) 
commonprefix function (os.path module) 
compare method (Text object) 
comparing
    arrays of numbers 
    directory paths 
    files 
    numbers  2nd 
compile function
    built-in 
        exec statement and 
    re module  2nd 
        flags argument 
__complex__ special method 
complex type (built-in)  2nd 
compound statements 
compress function
    Numeric module 
    zlib module 
compress_size attribute (zipfile module) 
compress_type attribute (zipfile module) 
compression 
    gzip module 
    zipfile module 
    zlib module 
concat method (operator module) 
concatenate function (Numeric module) 
concatenating
    sequences 
    strings 
Condition class (threading module)  2nd  3rd 
    acquire method 
    notify method 
    notifyAll method 
    release method 
    wait method 
condition command (pdb module) 
config method
    Font object 
    Widget object 
connect function (DBAPI-compliant modules) 
connect method
    FTP object 
    SMTP object 
    socket object  2nd 
Connection object (DBAPI-compliant modules)
    close method 
    commit method 
    cursor method 
    rollback method 
connectionLost method (Protocol object) 
connectionMade method (Protocol object) 
console I/O 
    Console module 
    curses package 
    msvcrt module 
    WConio module 
Console module 
constructor  [See __init__ special method]
constructor function (copy_reg module) 
contact argument (distutils setup function) 
contact_email argument (distutils setup function) 
container methods
    __contains__ 
    __delitem__ 
    __getitem__ 
    __iter__ 
    __len__ 
    __setitem__ 
container widgets 
    frames 
    top-level windows 
containers 
    returning number of items in 
    slicing 
    special methods for 
contains method (operator module) 
__contains__ special method 
ContentHandler class (xml.sax package) 
    characters method 
    endDocument method 
    endElement method 
    endElementNS method 
    startDocument method 
    startElement method 
    startElementNS method 
continuation lines 
continue command (pdb module) 
continue statement 
control flow statements 
    break statement 
    continue statement 
    for statement 
        iterators 
        list comprehensions 
        range/xrange functions 
    if statements 
    pass statement 
    try statement 
    while statements 
converting
    integers to hexadecimal strings 
    numbers 
        to floating-point 
        to integers 
    numeric operators 
    strings  2nd 
        date/time types 
        to floating-point 
        to Unicode 
    time values 
convolve function (Numeric module) 
Cookie module 
    Morsel class 
    SimpleCookie class 
    SmartCookie class 
cookies 
Cooledit program 
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) 
coords method (Canvas object) 
copy function
    copy module 
    shutil module 
copy method
    array object 
    dictionary object 
    Font object 
copy module
    copy function 
    deepcopy function 
copy_reg module
    constructor function 
    pickle function 
    pickling customization with 
copy2 function (shutil module) 
copyfile function (shutil module) 
copyfileobj function (shutil module) 
copying
    deep copying 
    file permission bits 
    files 
    types 
copymode function (shutil module) 
copystat function (shutil module) 
copytree function (shutil module) 
cos function
    cmath module 
    math module 
cosh function
    cmath module 
    math module 
count method
    list object 
    string object 
countOf method (operator module) 
cPickle module 
    dump/dumps functions 
    load/loads functions 
    Pickler function 
    pickling customization with copy_reg module 
    Unpickler function 
.cpp files 
CPython (Classic Python)  2nd 
    C-coded Python extensions
        abstract layer functions 
        arguments 
        building/installing 
        concrete layer functions 
        creating Python values 
        defining types 
        exceptions 
        functions 
        module initialization 
        overview 
        reference counting 
    CNRI Open Source GPL-Compatible License 
    embedding 
        installing extension modules 
        Python initialization/finalization 
        running Python code 
        setting arguments 
    extending
        in other languages 
        with Python C API 
    installing 
    reference counts 
CRC checksums (cyclic-redundancy check checksums) 
create_line method (Canvas object) 
create_polygon method (Canvas object) 
create_rectangle method (Canvas object) 
create_socket method (dispatcher object) 
create_text method (Canvas object) 
createComment method (Document object) 
createElement method (Document object) 
createTextNode method (Document object) 
creating
    dictionaries 
    directory paths 
    file object 
        designating buffering 
        sequential/nonsequential access 
        specifying file mode 
    iterators 
    lists 
    pipes 
    prebuilt distributions with distutils 
    tuples 
cross-platform portability  [See portability]
cross-platform programs, rich-text I/O functionality 
cross_correlate function (Numeric module) 
cStringIO function (cStringIO module) 
cStringIO module  2nd 
ctime function (time module) 
curdir attribute (os module) 
curly braces ({})
    dictionaries 
    dictionary creation 
    line continuation 
    python command-line syntax 
currentframe function (inspect module) 
currentThread function (threading module) 
curselection method (Listbox object) 
curses package 
curses programming 
cursor method (Connection object) 
Cursor object
    close method 
    DBAPI 
    description attribute 
    execute method 
    executemany method 
    fetchall method 
    fetchmany method 
    fetchone method 
    rowcount attribute 
customization 
cwd method (FTP object) 
CXX library 
cyclic garbage loops 
cyclic-redundancy check checksums (CRC checksums) 
Cygwin, building Python for