Python Programming
This book describes Python, an open-source general-purpose interpreted programming language available for the most popular operating systems. The current versions are 3.x while versions 2.x are no longer supported, since 2020. This book describes primarily the versions 3.x, but does at times reference versions 2.x.
There are a few implementations for Python 3 (and older): the standard implementation written in C, and PyPy, a JIT-compiled version written in RPython - a subset of Python. For Python 2 only there are Jython written in Java and IronPython written in C# for the .NET environment.
Contents
editIntro
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Basics
edit- Creating Python programs
- Variables and Strings
- Basic syntax
- Sequences (Strings, Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries, Sets)
- Data types
- Basic Math -- redundant to "Operators"
- Operators
- Control Flow
- Decision Control
- Functions
- Scoping
- Input and Output
- Files
- Modules
- Classes
- Exceptions
- Errors
- Source Documentation and Comments
- Idioms
- Package management
- Python 2 vs. Python 3
Advanced
edit- Decorators
- Context Managers
- Reflection
- Metaclasses
- Performance
- PyPy
- Cython
- Command-line one-liners
- Tips and Tricks
Modules
editStandard library modules
edit- Standard Library
- Regular Expression
- External commands
- XML Tools
- Threading
- Sockets
- GUI Programming
- Tkinter
- CGI interface
- WSGI web programming
- Internet
- Networks
- Math
Third-party modules
edit- Databases -- to be merged with the following chapter
- Database Programming
- numpy
- Game Programming in Python
- Qt4
- Dbus
- pyFormex
- matplotlib
- Sorted Container Types
- Excel
- MS Word
Writing extension modules
editAppendices
editSee also
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- Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6
- Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3
- Python as a scripting language in GIMP