The Quick Python Book, Third Edition

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. Brief Table of Contents
3. Table of Contents
4. Praise for the second edition
5. Foreword
6. Preface
7. Acknowledgments
8. About this book
9. About the cover illustration
10. Part 1. Starting out
    1. Chapter 1. About Python
    2. Chapter 2. Getting started
    3. Chapter 3. The Quick Python overview
11. Part 2. The essentials
    1. Chapter 4. The absolute basics
    2. Chapter 5. Lists, tuples, and sets
    3. Chapter 6. Strings
    4. Chapter 7. Dictionaries
    5. Chapter 8. Control flow
    6. Chapter 9. Functions
    7. Chapter 10. Modules and scoping rules
    8. Chapter 11. Python programs
    9. Chapter 12. Using the filesystem
    10. Chapter 13. Reading and writing files
    11. Chapter 14. Exceptions
12. Part 3. Advanced language features
    1. Chapter 15. Classes and object-oriented programming
    2. Chapter 16. Regular expressions
    3. Chapter 17. Data types as objects
    4. Chapter 18. Packages
    5. Chapter 19. Using Python libraries
13. Part 4. Working with data
    1. Chapter 20. Basic file wrangling
    2. Chapter 21. Processing data files
    3. Chapter 22. Data over the network
    4. Chapter 23. Saving data
    5. Chapter 24. Exploring data
14. Case study
15. Appendix A. A guide to Python’s documentation
16. Appendix B. Exercise answers
17. Index
18. List of Figures
19. List of Tables
20. List of Listings