- 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
Colophon
The animal on the cover of Learning Python, Third Edition, is a wood rat (Neotoma Muridae). The wood rat lives in a wide range of conditions (mostly rocky, scrub, and desert areas) over much of North and Central America, generally at some distance from humans. They are good climbers, nesting in trees or bushes up to six meters off the ground; some species burrow underground or in rock crevices or inhabit other species’ abandoned holes.
These grayish-beige, medium-size rodents are the original pack rats: they carry anything and everything into their homes, whether or not it’s needed, and are especially attracted to shiny objects such as tin cans, glass, and silverware.
The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from Cuvier’s Animals. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSans Mono Condensed.
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