July 2006
Beginner to intermediate
734 pages
20h 6m
English
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How This Book Is Organized
This book has five parts, as follows.
Part I, Getting Started with Python
- Chapter 1
Covers the general characteristics of the Python language and its implementations, and discusses where to get help and information.
- Chapter 2
Explains how to obtain and install Python on your computer(s).
- Chapter 3
Covers the Python interpreter program, its command-line options, and how it is used to run Python programs and in interactive sessions. The chapter also mentions text editors that are particularly suitable for editing Python programs and auxiliary programs for thoroughly checking your Python sources, and examines some full-fledged integrated development environments, including IDLE, which comes free with standard Python.
Part II, Core Python Language and Built-ins
- Chapter 4
Covers Python syntax, built-in data types, expressions, statements, and how to write and call functions.
- Chapter 5
Explains object-oriented programming in Python.
- Chapter 6
Covers how to deal with errors and abnormal conditions in Python programs.
- Chapter 7
Covers how Python lets you group code into modules and packages, how to define and import modules, and how to install third-party Python extensions that are packaged in standard Python ways.
- Chapter 8
Refers to built-in data types and functions, and some of the most fundamental modules in the standard Python library (roughly, modules supplying functionality that, in some other languages, is built into the language itself).
- Chapter 9
Covers Python’s powerful ...
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