Python Phrasebook

A pocket guide jam-packed with immediately useful and essential code phrases for the Python developer's everyday use!

Brad Dayley is a senior software engineer in Novell’s Nterprise Development Group. He has 14 years of experience installing, troubleshooting, and developing Novell’s products for NetWare and Linux. He is the co-author of Novell’s Guide to Resolving Critical Server Issues, as well as seven other Novell Press titles on the ZENworks suite.

When he is not writing books or software, he can be found biking, hiking, and/or Jeeping somewhere in the remote regions of the Pacific Northwest with his wife, DaNae, and four sons.

Understanding Python	p. 3
Why Use Python?
Invoking the Interpreter
Built-In Types Understanding
Python Syntax Python Objects, Modules, Classes, and Functions Error
Handling Using System Tools
Manipulating Strings
Comparing Strings
Joining Strings
Splitting Strings
Searching Strings for Substrings
Search and Replace in Strings
Searching Strings for Specific Endings/Beginnings
Trimming Strings
Aligning/Formatting Strings
Executing Code Inside Strings
Interpolating Variables Inside Strings
Converting Unicode to Local Strings
Managing Data Types
Defining a List
Accessing a List Slicing a List
Adding and Removing Items in a List
Sorting a List
Using Tuples
Constructing a Dictionary
Adding a Value to a Dictionary
Retrieving a Value from a Dictionary
Slicing a Dictionary
Swapping Keys for Values in a Dictionary
Managing Files Opening and Closing Files
Reading an Entire File
Reading a Single Line from a File
Accessing Each Word in a File
Writing a File
Determining the Number of Lines in a File
Walking the Directory Tree
Renaming Files
Recursively Deleting Files and Subdirectories
Searching for Files Based on Extension
Creating a TAR File
Extracting a File from a TAR File
Adding Files to a ZIP File
Retrieving Files from a ZIP File
Managing Threads
Starting a New Thread
Creating and Exiting Threads
Synchronizing Threads
Implementing a Multithreaded Priority Queue
Initiating a Timer-Interrupted Thread
Managing Databases
Adding Entries to a DBM File
Retrieving Entries from a DBM File
Updating Entries in a DBM File
Pickling Objects to a File
Unpickling Objects from a File
Storing Objects in a Shelve File
Retrieving Objects from a Shelve File
Changing Objects in a Shelve File
Connecting to a MySQL Database Server
Creating a MySQL Database
Adding Entries to a MySQL Database
Retrieving Entries from a MySQL Database
Implementing Internet Communication
Opening a Server-Side Socket for Receiving Data
Opening a Client-Side Socket for Sending Data
Receiving Streaming Data Using the ServerSocket Module
Sending Streaming Data
Sending Email Using SMTP
Retrieving Email from a POP3 Server
Using Python to Fetch Files from an FTP Server
Processing HTML
Parsing URLs
Opening HTML Documents
Retrieving Links from HTML Documents
Retrieving Images from HTML Documents
Retrieving Text from HTML Documents
Retrieving Cookies in HTML Documents
Adding Quotes to Attribute Values in HTML Documents
Processing XML
Loading an XML Document
Checking for Well-Formed XML Documents
Accessing Child Nodes
Accessing Element Attributes
Adding a Node to a DOM Tree
Removing a Node from a DOM Tree
Searching XML Documents
Extracting Text from XML Documents
Parsing XML Tags
Programming Web Services
Adding HTML to Web Pages Using CGI Scripts
Processing Parameters Passed to CGI Scripts
Creating Self-Posting CGI Scripts
Allowing Users to Upload Files via CGI Scripts
Creating an HTTP Server to Handle GET Requests
Creating an HTTP Server to Handle POST Requests
Creating an HTTP Server to Process CGI Scripts
Sending an HTTP GET Request from a Python Script
Sending an HTTP POST Request from a Python Script
Creating an XML-RPC Server
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