Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We can also get rid of the last .get call by combining ChainMap with defaultdict."

A block of code is set as follows:

for word in 'hello world this is a very nice day'.split():
    if word in counts:
        counts[word] += 1

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

class Bunch(dict):
    def __init__(self, **kwds):
        super().__init__(**kwds)
        self.__dict__ = self

Any command-line input or output is written as follows: ...