- Dedication
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- I. Getting Started
- 1. A Python Q&A Session
- 2. How Python Runs Programs
- 3. How You Run Programs
- 3.1. Interactive Coding
- 3.2. System Command Lines and Files
- 3.3. Clicking Windows File Icons
- 3.4. Module Imports and Reloads
- 3.5. The IDLE User Interface
- 3.6. Other IDEs
- 3.7. Embedding Calls
- 3.8. Frozen Binary Executables
- 3.9. Text Editor Launch Options
- 3.10. Other Launch Options
- 3.11. Future Possibilities?
- 3.12. Which Option Should I Use?
- 3.13. Part I Exercises
- II. Types and Operations
- 4. Numbers
- 5. Strings
- 6. Lists and Dictionaries
- 7. Tuples, Files, and Everything Else
- III. Statements and Syntax
- 8. Assignment, Expressions, and Print
- 9. if Tests
- 10. while and for Loops
- 11. Documenting Python Code
- 11.1. The Python Documentation Interlude
- 11.2. Common Coding Gotchas
- 11.3. Part III Exercises
- IV. Functions
- 12. Function Basics
- 13. Scopes and Arguments
- 13.1. Scope Rules
- 13.2. The global Statement
- 13.3. Scopes and Nested Functions
- 13.4. Passing Arguments
- 13.5. Special Argument Matching Modes
- 14. Advanced Function Topics
- V. Modules
- 15. Modules: The Big Picture
- 16. Module Coding Basics
- 17. Module Packages
- 18. Advanced Module Topics
- 18.1. Data Hiding in Modules
- 18.2. Enabling Future Language Features
- 18.3. Mixed Usage Modes: __name__ and __main__
- 18.4. Changing the Module Search Path
- 18.5. The import as Extension
- 18.6. Module Design Concepts
- 18.7. Module Gotchas
- 18.7.1. Importing Modules by Name String
- 18.7.2. from Copies Names but Doesn’t Link
- 18.7.3. Statement Order Matters in Top-Level Code
- 18.7.4. Recursive “from” Imports May Not Work
- 18.7.5. reload May Not Impact from Imports
- 18.7.6. reload and from and Interactive Testing
- 18.7.7. reload Isn’t Applied Transitively
- 18.8. Part V Exercises
- VI. Classes and OOP
- 19. OOP: The Big Picture
- 20. Class Coding Basics
- 21. Class Coding Details
- 21.1. The Class Statement
- 21.2. Methods
- 21.3. Inheritance
- 21.4. Operator Overloading
- 21.4.1. Common Operator Overloading Methods
- 21.4.2. __getitem__ Intercepts Index References
- 21.4.3. __getitem__ and __iter__ Implement Iteration
- 21.4.4. __getattr__ and __setattr__ Catch Attribute References
- 21.4.5. __repr__ and __str__Return String Representations
- 21.4.6. __radd__ Handles Right-Side Addition
- 21.4.7. __call__ Intercepts Calls
- 21.4.8. __del__ Is a Destructor
- 21.5. Namespaces: The Whole Story
- 22. Designing with Classes
- 22.1. Python and OOP
- 22.2. Classes as Records
- 22.3. OOP and Inheritance: “is-a” Relationships
- 22.4. OOP and Composition: “has-a” Relationships
- 22.5. OOP and Delegation
- 22.6. Multiple Inheritance
- 22.7. Classes Are Objects: Generic Object Factories
- 22.8. Methods Are Objects: Bound or Unbound
- 22.9. Documentation Strings Revisited
- 22.10. Classes Versus Modules
- 23. Advanced Class Topics
- 23.1. Extending Built-in Types
- 23.2. Pseudo-Private Class Attributes
- 23.3. “New Style” Classes in Python 2.2
- 23.4. Class Gotchas
- 23.5. Part VI Exercises
- VII. Exceptions and Tools
- 24. Exception Basics
- 25. Exception Objects
- 26. Designing with Exceptions
- VIII. The Outer Layers
- 27. Common Tasks in Python
- 27.1. Exploring on Your Own
- 27.2. Conversions, Numbers, and Comparisons
- 27.3. Manipulating Strings
- 27.4. Data Structure Manipulations
- 27.5. Manipulating Files and Directories
- 27.5.1. The os and os.path Modules
- 27.5.2. Copying Files and Directories: The shutil Module
- 27.5.3. Filenames and Directories
- 27.5.4. Matching Sets of Files
- 27.5.5. Using Temporary Files
- 27.5.6. Modifying Input and Outputs
- 27.5.7. Using Standard I/O to Process Files
- 27.5.7.1. Finding all lines that start with a #
- 27.5.7.2. Extracting the fourth column of a file (where columns are defined by whitespace)
- 27.5.7.3. Extracting the fourth column of a file, where columns are separated by colons, and making it lowercase
- 27.5.7.4. Printing the first 10 lines, the last 10 lines, and every other line
- 27.5.7.5. Counting the number of times the word “Python” occurs in a file
- 27.5.7.6. Changing a list of columns into a list of rows
- 27.5.7.7. Choosing chunk sizes
- 27.5.8. Doing Something to a Set of Files Specified on the Command Line
- 27.5.9. Processing Each Line of One or More Files
- 27.5.10. Dealing with Binary Data: The struct Module
- 27.6. Internet-Related Modules
- 27.7. Executing Programs
- 27.8. Debugging, Testing, Timing, Profiling
- 27.9. Exercises
- 28. Frameworks
- 29. Python Resources
- 29.1. Layers of Community
- 29.2. The Process
- 29.3. Services and Products
- 29.4. The Legal Framework: The Python Software Foundation
- 29.5. Software
- 29.6. Popular Third-Party Software
- 29.7. Web Application Frameworks
- 29.8. Tools for Python Developers
- 27. Common Tasks in Python
- IX. Appendixes
- A. Installation and Configuration
- B. Solutions to Exercises
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Copyright
Dedication
To the late Frank Willison, our mentor, friend, and first editor.
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