- 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
- Interactive Coding
- System Command Lines and Files
- Clicking File Icons
- Module Imports and Reloads
- The IDLE User Interface
- Other IDEs
- Embedding Calls
- Frozen Binary Executables
- Text Editor Launch Options
- Other Launch Options
- Future Possibilities?
- Which Option Should I Use?
- Chapter Summary
- BRAIN BUILDER
- II. Types and Operations
- 4. Introducing Python Object Types
- 5. Numbers
- 6. The Dynamic Typing Interlude
- 7. ofsmallStrings
- 8. Lists and Dictionaries
- 9. Tuples, Files, and Everything Else
- III. Statements and Syntax
- 10. Introducing Python Statements
- 11. rwordsAssignment, Expressions, and print
- 12. if Tests
- 13. while and for Loops
- 14. The Documentation Interlude
- IV. Functions
- 15. Function Basics
- 16. Scopes and Arguments
- 17. Advanced Function Topics
- Anonymous Functions: lambda
- Applying Functions to Arguments
- Mapping Functions over Sequences: map
- Functional Programming Tools: filter and reduce
- List Comprehensions Revisited: Mappings
- Iterators Revisited: Generators
- Timing Iteration Alternatives
- Function Design Concepts
- Function Gotchas
- Chapter Summary
- BRAIN BUILDER
- V. Modules
- 18. Modules: The Big Picture
- 19. Module Coding Basics
- 20. Module Packages
- 21. Advanced Module Topics
- VI. Classes and OOP
- 22. OOP: The Big Picture
- 23. Class Coding Basics
- 24. Class Coding Details
- The class Statement
- Methods
- Inheritance
- Operator Overloading
- Common Operator Overloading Methods
- _ _getitem_ _ Intercepts Index References
- _ _getitem_ _ and _ _iter_ _ Implement Iteration
- User-Defined Iterators
- _ _getattr_ _ and _ _setattr_ _ Catch Attribute References
- Emulating Privacy for Instance Attributes
- _ _repr_ _ and _ _str_ _ Return String Representations
- _ _radd_ _ Handles Right-Side Addition
- _ _call_ _ Intercepts Calls
- Function Interfaces and Callback-Based Code
- _ _del_ _ Is a Destructor
- Namespaces: The Whole Story
- A More Realistic Example
- Chapter Summary
- 25. Designing with Classes
- Python and OOP
- Classes As Records
- OOP and Inheritance: “Is-a” Relationships
- OOP and Composition: “Has-a” Relationships
- OOP and Delegation
- Multiple Inheritance
- Classes Are Objects: Generic Object Factories
- Methods Are Objects: Bound or Unbound
- Documentation Strings Revisited
- Classes Versus Modules
- Chapter Summary
- 26. Advanced Class Topics
- VII. Exceptions and Tools
- 27. Exception Basics
- 28. Exception Objects
- 29. Designing with Exceptions
- VIII. Appendixes
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
About the Author
Mark Lutz is the world leader in Python training, the author of Python's earliest and best-selling texts, and a pioneering figure in the Python community since 1992. He is also the author of O'Reilly's Programming Python, 3rd Edition and Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition. Mark began teaching Python classes in 1997, and has instructed more than 200 Python training sessions as of 2007. Mark also has BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and 25 years of software development experience.Whenever Mark gets a break from spreading the Python word, he leads an ordinary, average life with his kids in Colorado. Mark can be reached by email at , or on the web at http://www.rmi.net/~lutz.
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