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Copyright |
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Preface |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Conventions Used in This Book |
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How to Contact Us |
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Acknowledgments |
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Part I:
Getting Started with Python |
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Chapter 1.
Introduction to Python |
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Section 1.1.
The Python Language |
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Section 1.2.
The Python Standard Library and Extension Modules |
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Section 1.3.
Python Implementations |
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Section 1.4.
Python Development and Versions |
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Section 1.5.
Python Resources |
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Chapter 2.
Installation |
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Section 2.1.
Installing Python from Source Code |
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Section 2.2.
Installing Python from Binaries |
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Section 2.3.
Installing Jython |
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Chapter 3.
The Python Interpreter |
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Section 3.1.
The python Program |
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Section 3.2.
Python Development Environments |
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Section 3.3.
Running Python Programs |
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Section 3.4.
The Jython Interpreter |
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Part II:
Core Python Language and Built-ins |
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Chapter 4.
The Python Language |
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Section 4.1.
Lexical Structure |
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Section 4.2.
Data Types |
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Section 4.3.
Variables and Other References |
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Section 4.4.
Expressions and Operators |
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Section 4.5.
Numeric Operations |
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Section 4.6.
Sequence Operations |
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Section 4.7.
Dictionary Operations |
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Section 4.8.
The print Statement |
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Section 4.9.
Control Flow Statements |
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Section 4.10.
Functions |
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Chapter 5.
Object-Oriented Python |
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Section 5.1.
Classic Classes and Instances |
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Section 5.2.
New-Style Classes and Instances |
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Section 5.3.
Special Methods |
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Section 5.4.
Metaclasses |
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Chapter 6.
Exceptions |
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Section 6.1.
The try Statement |
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Section 6.2.
Exception Propagation |
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Section 6.3.
The raise Statement |
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Section 6.4.
Exception Objects |
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Section 6.5.
Custom Exception Classes |
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Section 6.6.
Error-Checking Strategies |
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Chapter 7.
Modules |
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Section 7.1.
Module Objects |
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Section 7.2.
Module Loading |
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Section 7.3.
Packages |
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Section 7.4.
The Distribution Utilities (distutils) |
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Chapter 8.
Core Built-ins |
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Section 8.1.
Built-in Types |
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Section 8.2.
Built-in Functions |
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Section 8.3.
The sys Module |
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Section 8.4.
The getopt Module |
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Section 8.5.
The copy Module |
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Section 8.6.
The bisect Module |
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Section 8.7.
The UserList, UserDict, and UserString Modules |
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Chapter 9.
Strings and Regular Expressions |
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Section 9.1.
Methods of String Objects |
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Section 9.2.
The string Module |
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Section 9.3.
String Formatting |
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Section 9.4.
The pprint Module |
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Section 9.5.
The repr Module |
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Section 9.6.
Unicode |
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Section 9.7.
Regular Expressions and the re Module |
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Part III:
Python Library and Extension Modules |
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Chapter 10.
File and Text Operations |
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Section 10.1.
The os Module |
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Section 10.2.
Filesystem Operations |
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Section 10.3.
File Objects |
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Section 10.4.
Auxiliary Modules for File I/O |
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Section 10.5.
The StringIO and cStringIO Modules |
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Section 10.6.
Compressed Files |
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Section 10.7.
Text Input and Output |
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Section 10.8.
Richer-Text I/O |
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Section 10.9.
Interactive Command Sessions |
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Section 10.10.
Internationalization |
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Chapter 11.
Persistence and Databases |
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Section 11.1.
Serialization |
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Section 11.2.
DBM Modules |
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Section 11.3.
The Berkeley DB Module |
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Section 11.4.
The Python Database API (DBAPI) 2.0 |
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Chapter 12.
Time Operations |
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Section 12.1.
The time Module |
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Section 12.2.
The sched Module |
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Section 12.3.
The calendar Module |
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Section 12.4.
The mx.DateTime Module |
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Chapter 13.
Controlling Execution |
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Section 13.1.
Dynamic Execution and the exec Statement |
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Section 13.2.
Restricted Execution |
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Section 13.3.
Internal Types |
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Section 13.4.
Garbage Collection |
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Section 13.5.
Termination Functions |
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Section 13.6.
Site and User Customization |
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Chapter 14.
Threads and Processes |
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Section 14.1.
Threads in Python |
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Section 14.2.
The thread Module |
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Section 14.3.
The Queue Module |
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Section 14.4.
The threading Module |
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Section 14.5.
Threaded Program Architecture |
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Section 14.6.
Process Environment |
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Section 14.7.
Running Other Programs |
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Section 14.8.
The mmap Module |
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Chapter 15.
Numeric Processing |
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Section 15.1.
The math and cmath Modules |
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Section 15.2.
The operator Module |
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Section 15.3.
The random Module |
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Section 15.4.
The array Module |
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Section 15.5.
The Numeric Package |
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Section 15.6.
Array Objects |
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Section 15.7.
Universal Functions (ufuncs) |
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Section 15.8.
Optional Numeric Modules |
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Chapter 16.
Tkinter GUIs |
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Section 16.1.
Tkinter Fundamentals |
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Section 16.2.
Widget Fundamentals |
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Section 16.3.
Commonly Used Simple Widgets |
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Section 16.4.
Container Widgets |
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Section 16.5.
Menus |
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Section 16.6.
The Text Widget |
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Section 16.7.
The Canvas Widget |
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Section 16.8.
Geometry Management |
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Section 16.9.
Tkinter Events |
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Chapter 17.
Testing, Debugging, and Optimizing |
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Section 17.1.
Testing |
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Section 17.2.
Debugging |
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Section 17.3.
The warnings Module |
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Section 17.4.
Optimization |
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Part IV:
Network and Web Programming |
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Chapter 18.
Client-Side Network Protocol Modules |
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Section 18.1.
URL Access |
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Section 18.2.
Email Protocols |
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Section 18.3.
The HTTP and FTP Protocols |
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Section 18.4.
Network News |
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Section 18.5.
Telnet |
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Section 18.6.
Distributed Computing |
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Chapter 19.
Sockets and Server-Side Network Protocol Modules |
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Section 19.1.
The socket Module |
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Section 19.2.
The SocketServer Module |
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Section 19.3.
Event-Driven Socket Programs |
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Chapter 20.
CGI Scripting and Alternatives |
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Section 20.1.
CGI in Python |
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Section 20.2.
Cookies |
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Section 20.3.
Other Server-Side Approaches |
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Chapter 21.
MIME and Network Encodings |
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Section 21.1.
Encoding Binary Data as Text |
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Section 21.2.
MIME and Email Format Handling |
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Chapter 22.
Structured Text: HTML |
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Section 22.1.
The sgmllib Module |
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Section 22.2.
The htmllib Module |
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Section 22.3.
The HTMLParser Module |
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Section 22.4.
Generating HTML |
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Chapter 23.
Structured Text: XML |
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Section 23.1.
An Overview of XML Parsing |
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Section 23.2.
Parsing XML with SAX |
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Section 23.3.
Parsing XML with DOM |
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Section 23.4.
Changing and Generating XML |
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Part V:
Extending and Embedding |
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Chapter 24.
Extending and Embedding Classic Python |
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Section 24.1.
Extending Python with Python's C API |
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Section 24.2.
Extending Python Without Python's C API |
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Section 24.3.
Embedding Python |
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Chapter 25.
Extending and Embedding Jython |
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Section 25.1.
Importing Java Packages in Jython |
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Section 25.2.
Embedding Jython in Java |
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Section 25.3.
Compiling Python into Java |
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Chapter 26.
Distributing Extensions and Programs |
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Section 26.1.
Python's distutils |
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Section 26.2.
The py2exe Tool |
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Section 26.3.
The Installer Tool |
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Colophon |
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Index |
