Text Processing in Python

Appendix A. A Selective and Impressionistic Short Review of Python

A reader who is coming to Python for the first time would be well served reading Guido van Rossum's Python Tutorial, which can be downloaded from <http://python.org/>, or picking up one of the several excellent books devoted to teaching Python to novices. As indicated in the Preface, the audience of this book is a bit different.

The above said, some readers of this book might use Python only infrequently, or not have used Python for a while, or may be sufficiently versed in numerous other programming languages, that a quick review on Python constructs suffices for understanding. This appendix will briefly mention each major element of the Python language itself, but will not address ...