Python Essential Reference

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ISBN: 9780672328626 | 0672328623
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Copyright: 1/1/2006

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Python Essential Reference, 3rd Edition,is a comprehensive reference to the Python programming language. The focus of this latest edition is to add coverage of significant new features and new library modules added to the language over the past five years. Clearly written with concise organization, the new features covered include new style classes, unification of types and classes, xmlrpclip, intertools, bz2 and optparse, making it the most up-to-date Python book on the market.

Introduction

(4)

I. The Python Language

A Tutorial Introduction

(14)

Running Python

(1)

Variables and Arithmetic Expressions

(1)

Conditionals

(1)

File Input and Output

(1)

Strings

(1)

Lists

(1)

Tuples

(1)

Sets

(1)

Dictionaries

(1)

Iteration and Looping

(1)

Functions

(1)

Classes

(1)

Exceptions

(1)

Modules

(1)

Getting Help

(1)

Lexical Conventions and Syntax

(8)

Line Structure and Indentation

(1)

Identifiers and Reserved Words

(1)

Literals

(2)

Operators, Delimiters, and Special Symbols

(1)

Documentation Strings

(1)

Decorators

(1)

Source Code Encoding

(3)

Types and Objects

(30)

Terminology

(1)

Object Identity and Type

(1)

Reference Counting and Garbage Collection

(1)

References and Copies

(1)

Built-in Types

(15)

The None Type

(1)

Numeric Types

(1)

Sequence Types

(4)

Mapping Types

(2)

Set Types

(1)

Callable Types

(2)

Classes and Types

(1)

Modules

(1)

Files

(1)

Internal Types

(2)

Classic Classes

(1)

Special Methods

(9)

Object Creation, Destruction, and Representation

(1)

Attribute Access

(2)

Sequence and Mapping Methods

(1)

Iteration

(1)

Mathematical Operations

(2)

Comparison Operations

(1)

Callable Objects

(1)

Performance Considerations

(3)

Operators and Expressions

(14)

Operations on Numbers

(2)

Operations on Sequences

(4)

Operations on Dictionaries

(1)

Operations on Sets

(1)

Augmented Assignment

(1)

The Attribute (.) Operator

(1)

Type Conversion

(1)

Unicode Strings

(3)

Boolean Expressions and Truth Values

(1)

Object Equality and Identity

(1)

Order of Evaluation

(3)

Control Flow

(8)

Conditionals

(1)

Loops and Iteration

(2)

Exceptions

(3)

Defining New Exceptions

(1)

Assertions and __debug__

(2)

Functions and Functional Programming

(12)

Functions

(2)

Parameter Passing and Return Values

(1)

Scoping Rules

(1)

Functions as Objects

(1)

Recursion

(1)

The apply () Function

(1)

The lambda Operator

(1)

map(), zip(), reduce(), and filter()

(1)

List Comprehensions

(1)

Generators and yield

(1)

Generator Expressions

(1)

Function Decorators

(1)

eval (), exec, execfile(), and compile()

(2)

Classes and Object-Oriented Programming

(12)

The class Statement

(2)

Class Instances

(1)

Reference Counting and Instance Destruction

(1)

Inheritance

(2)

Polymorphism

(1)

Information Hiding

(1)

Operator Overloading

(1)

Types and Class Membership Tests

(1)

Classic Classes

(1)

Metaclasses

(4)

Modules and Packages

103

(8)

Modules

103

(2)

The Module Search Path

105

(1)

Module Loading and Compilation

105

(1)

Module Reloading

106

(1)

Packages

107

(4)

Input and Output

111

(12)

Reading Options and Environment Variables

111

(1)

Files and File Objects

112

(2)

Standard Input, Output, and Error

114

(1)

The print Statement

115

(1)

Persistence

116

(1)

Unicode I/O

117

(6)

Execution Environment

123

(8)

Interpreter Options and Environment

123

(2)

Interactive Sessions

125

(1)

Launching Python Applications

126

(1)

Site Configuration Files

126

(1)

Enabling Future Features

126

(1)

Program Termination

126

(5)

II. The Python Library

Introduction to the Python Standard Library

131

(4)

Library Overview

132

(1)

Preview

132

(3)

Built-in Functions and Exceptions

135

(14)

Built in Functions

135

(9)

Built-in Exceptions

144

(5)

Python Runtime Services

149

(32)

atexit

149

(1)

code

149

(2)

copy

151

(1)

copy_reg

152

(1)

__future__

153

(1)

154

(1)

inspect

155

(4)

marshal

159

(1)

new

160

(1)

operator

161

(1)

pickle and cPickle

162

(3)

site

165

(1)

sys

166

(4)

traceback

170

(2)

types

172

(2)

warnings

174

(2)

weakref

176

(2)

UserDict, UserList, and UserString

178

(3)

Mathematics

181

(14)

cmath

181

(1)

decimal

182

(8)

math

190

(1)

random

191

(4)

Data Structures and Algorithms

195

(8)

array

195

(2)

bisect

197

(1)

collections

197

(1)

heapq

198

(1)

itertools

199

(4)

String and Text Handling

203

(34)

codecs

203

(8)

difflib

211

(2)

gettext

213

(4)

217

(7)

string

224

(3)

StringIO and cStringIO

227

(1)

struct

228

(2)

textwrap

230

(1)

unicodedata

231

(6)

Data Management and Object Persistence

237

(8)

Introduction

237

(1)

anydbm

238

(1)

bsddb

238

(1)

dbhash

239

(1)

dbm

240

(1)

dumbdbm

240

(1)

gdbm

241

(1)

shelve

242

(1)

whichdb

243

(2)

File Handling

245

(20)

bz2

245

(1)

csv

246

(3)

filecmp

249

(2)

fileinput

251

(1)

fnmatch

252

(1)

glob

253

(1)

gzip

253

(1)

tarfile

254

(4)

zipfile

258

(3)

zlib

261

(4)

Operating System Services

265

(90)

commands

265

(1)

crypt

266

(1)

datetime

267

(6)

273

(2)

errno

275

(5)

fcntl

280

(2)

getopt

282

(1)

getpass

283

(1)

grp

283

(1)

locale

284

(3)

logging

287

(11)

mmap

298

(3)

msvcrt

301

(1)

optparse

302

(6)

308

(18)

os.path

326

(3)

platform

329

(2)

popen2

331

(1)

pwd

332

(1)

resource

333

(2)

shutil

335

(1)

signal

336

(2)

stat

338

(1)

statvfs

339

(1)

subprocess

340

(2)

tempfile

342

(2)

termios

344

(4)

time

348

(3)

tty

351

(1)

__winreg

351

(4)

Threads

355

(10)

Thread Basics

355

(1)

Python Threads

355

(1)

thread

356

(2)

threading

358

(5)

Queue

363

(2)

Network Programming

365

(28)

Introduction

365

(3)

asynchat

368

(2)

asyncore

370

(4)

select

374

(1)

socket

375

(13)

SocketServer

388

(5)

Internet Application Protocols

393

(52)

BaseHTTPServer

393

(3)

cgi

396

(5)

cgitb

401

(1)

CGIHTTPServer

402

(1)

402

(3)

cookielib

405

(5)

DocXMLRPCServer

410

(1)

encodings.idna

411

(1)

ftplib

412

(3)

httplib

415

(7)

imaplib

422

(1)

nntplib

422

(4)

poplib

426

robotparser

128

(300)

SimpleHTTPServer

428

(1)

SimpleXMLRPCServer

429

(3)

smtplib

432

(1)

urllib

433

(2)

urllib2

435

(5)

urlparse

440

(1)

webbrowser

441

(1)

xmlrpclib

442

(3)

Internet Data Handling and Encoding

445

(50)

base64

445

(2)

binascii

447

(2)

binhex

449

(1)

449

(12)

HTMLParser

461

(2)

mailcap

463

(1)

mimetypes

464

(5)

quopri

469

(1)

rfc822

470

(3)

473

(1)

xdrlib

473

(4)

xml

477

(1)

xml.dom

477

(4)

xml.dom.minidom

481

(6)

xml.sax

487

(6)

xml.sax.saxutils

493

(2)

Cryptographic Services

495

(4)

hmac

495

(1)

md5

496

(1)

sha

497

(2)

Miscellaneous Modules

499

(4)

Python Services

499

(1)

String Processing

500

(1)

Operating System Modules

500

(1)

Network

500

(1)

Internet Data Handling

501

(1)

Multimedia Services

501

(1)

Miscellaneous

502

(1)

Debugging, Profiling, and Testing

503

(16)

doctest

503

(2)

hotshot

505

(1)

pdb

506

(4)

profile

510

(1)

pstats

511

(1)

timeit

512

(1)

unittest

513

(6)

III. Extending and Embedding

Extending and Embedding Python

519

(30)

Extension Module Example

519

(2)

Compilation of Extensions

521

(2)

Converting Data from Python to C

523

(3)

Converting Data from C to Python

526

(2)

Error Handling

528

(3)

Reference Counting

531

(1)

Calling Python from C

532

(1)

Abstract Object Layer

533

(4)

Low-level Functions on Built-in Types

537

(6)

Threads

543

(1)

Embedding

544

(2)

Defining New Python Types

546

(1)

Extension Building Tools

546

(3)

Index

549

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