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CONTENTS IN DETAIL

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Who This Book Is For

What’s in This Book

Python Version, Platform, and IDE

Where to Get Help

1SILLY NAME GENERATOR

Project #1: Generating Pseudonyms

Planning and Designing a Project

Using the Python Community’s Style Guide

Checking Your Code with Pylint

Describing Your Code with Docstrings

Checking Your Code Style

Further Reading

Third-Party Modules

Practice Projects

Poor Man’s Bar Chart

Challenge Projects

Poor Foreign Man’s Bar Chart

Something Completely Different

2FINDING PALINGRAM SPELLS

Finding and Opening a Dictionary

Handling Exceptions When Opening Files

Loading the Dictionary ...

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