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Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Alex Martelli
July 2006
Beginner to intermediate
734 pages
20h 6m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Index

A note on the digital index

A link in an index entry is displayed as the section title in which that entry appears. Because some sections have multiple index markers, it is not unusual for an entry to have several links to the same section. Clicking on any link will take you directly to the place in the text in which the marker appears.

Symbols

4Suite, Structured Text: XML
See also, Expressions and Operators, The maketrans Function, Regular Expressions and the re Module
complete list of operators, Table 4-2, Expressions and Operators
regular expression pattern syntax, Table 9-2, Regular Expressions and the re Module
string-formatting specifier syntax, The maketrans Function
& (ampersand), set intersection operator, Set Methods
<> (angle brackets), Expressions and Operators, Binding Callbacks to Events
Tkinter event names, Binding Callbacks to Events
obsolete form of !=, Expressions and Operators
* (asterisk), Sequence Operations, Parameters, Kinds of arguments, The from Statement
from statement, The from Statement
sequence repetition operator, Sequence Operations
special form in def parameters, Parameters
special form in function call, Kinds of arguments
@ (at-sign), decorators, Delimiters, Decorators
` (backquote), string conversion, Expressions and Operators
\ (backslash), Command-Line Syntax and Options, Lines and Indentation, Strings, Pattern-String Syntax
in directory paths, Command-Line Syntax and Options
escape sequences in string literals, Strings
joining physical lines into one logical ...
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