And that concludes our sneak preview demo of Python in action. We’ve explored data representation, OOP, object persistence, GUIs, and web site basics. We haven’t studied any of these topics in any sort of depth. Hopefully, though, this chapter has piqued your curiosity about Python applications programming.

In the rest of this book, we’ll delve into these and other application programming tools and topics, in order to help you put Python to work in your own programs. In the next chapter, we begin our tour with the systems programming tools available to Python programmers.