Beginning Python by Payne, James -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Contents Title Copyright Dedication About the Author Credits Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Dipping Your Toe into Python

Chapter 1: Programming Basics and Strings

How Programming is Different from Using a Computer The First Steps Beginning to Use Python — Strings Putting Two Strings Together Putting Strings Together in Different Ways Summary Exercises

Chapter 2: Numbers and Operators

Different Kinds of Numbers Program Files Using Numbers Summary Exercises

Chapter 3: Variables — Names for Values

Referring to Data — Using Names for Data Using More Built-in Types Other Common Sequence Properties Summary Exercises

Part II: Python Language and the Standard Library

Chapter 4: Making Decisions

Comparing Values — Are They the Same? Doing the Opposite — Not Equal Comparing Values — Which One Is More? Reversing True and False Looking for the Results of More Than One Comparison Repetition Handling Errors Summary Exercises

Chapter 5: Functions

Putting Your Program into Its Own File Functions: Grouping Code under a Name Layers of Functions Summary Exercises

Chapter 6: Classes and Objects

Thinking About Programming Defining a Class Summary Exercises

Chapter 7: Organizing Programs

Modules Packages Modules and Packages Basics of Testing Your Modules and Packages Summary Exercises

Chapter 8: Files and Directories

File Objects Paths and Directories Exceptions in os Summary Exercises

Chapter 9: Other Features of the Language

Lambda and Filter: Short Anonymous Functions Map: Short-Circuiting Loops Decisions within Lists — List Comprehension Generating Iterators for Loops Special String Substitution Using Dictionaries Featured Modules Summary Exercises

Chapter 10: Building a Module

Exploring Modules Creating Modules and Packages Working with Classes Finishing Your Modules Creating a Whole Module Installing Your Modules Summary Exercises

Chapter 11: Text Processing

Why Text Processing Is So Useful Navigating the File System with the os Module Working with Regular Expressions and the re Module Summary Exercises

Part III: Putting Python to Work

Chapter 12: Testing

Assertions Test Cases and Test Suites Test Fixtures Putting It All Together with Extreme Programming Formal Testing in the Software Life Cycle Summary

Chapter 13: Writing a Gui with Python

GUI Programming Toolkits for Python Tkinter Introduction Creating GUI Widgets with Tkinter Summary Exercises

Chapter 14: Accessing Databases

Working with DBM Persistent Dictionaries Working with Relational Databases Using the Python Database APIs Summary Exercises

Chapter 15: Using Python for XML

What Is XML? What Is a Schema/DTD? Document Type Definitions Schemas XPath HTML as a Subset of XML XML Libraries Available for Python What Is SAX? Why Use SAX or DOM SAX and DOM Parsers Available for Python Intro to XSLT What Is lxml? Element Classes Parsing with lxml Summary Exercises

Chapter 16: Network Programming

Understanding Protocols Sending Internet E-mail Retrieving Internet E-mail Socket Programming Other Topics Summary Exercises

Chapter 17: Extension Programming with C

Extension Module Outline Building and Installing Extension Modules Passing Parameters from Python to C Returning Values from C to Python The LAME Project The LAME Extension Module Using Python Objects from C Code Summary Exercises

Chapter 18: Numerical Programming

Numbers in Python Mathematics Complex Numbers Arrays Summary Exercises

Chapter 19: An Introduction to Django

What Are Frameworks and Why Would I Use One? Other Features of Web Frameworks Django — How It All Began Understanding Django’s Architecture Working with Templates Using Templates and Views Creating a Model: Creating an Application Summary Exercises

Chapter 20: Web Applications and Web Services

REST: The Architecture of the Web HTTP: Real-World REST CGI: Turning Scripts into Web Applications HTML Forms’ Limited Vocabulary Safety When Accessing Form Values Building a Wiki Web Services REST Web Services XML-RPC SOAP Documenting Your Web Service API Choosing a Web Service Standard Web Service Etiquette Summary Exercises

Chapter 21: Integrating Java with Python

Scripting within Java Applications Comparing Python Implementations Installing Jython Running Jython Running Jython on Your Own Packaging Jython-Based Applications Integrating Java and Jython Testing from Jython Embedding the Jython Interpreter Handling Differences between C-Python and Jython Summary Exercises

Part IV: Appendices

Appendix A: Answers to the Exercises Appendix B: Online Resources Appendix C: What’s New in Python 3.1 Appendix D: Glossary

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