Core Python Programming, Second Edition

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Core Python

1 Welcome to Python!

1.1. What Is Python?

1.2. Origins

1.3. Features

1.4. Downloading and Installing Python

1.5. Running Python

1.6. Python Documentation

1.7. Comparing Python

1.8. Other Implementations

1.9. Exercises

2 Getting Started

2.1. Program Output, the print Statement, and “Hello World!”

2.2. Program Input and the raw_input() Built-in Function

2.3. Comments

2.4. Operators

2.5. Variables and Assignment

2.6. Numbers

2.7. Strings

2.8. Lists and Tuples

2.9. Dictionaries

2.10. Code Blocks Use Indentation

2.11. if Statement

2.12. while Loop

2.13. for Loop and the range() Built-in Function

2.14. List Comprehensions

2.15. Files and the open() and file() Built-in Functions

2.16. Errors and ...