The Quick Python Book

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

1. Starting out

Chapter 1. About Python

1.1. Why should I use Python?

1.2. What Python does well

1.2.1. Python is easy to use

1.2.2. Python is expressive

1.2.3. Python is readable

1.2.4. Python is complete—“batteries included”

1.2.5. Python is cross-platform

1.2.6. Python is free

1.3. What Python doesn’t do as well

1.3.1. Python is not the fastest language

1.3.2. Python doesn’t have the most libraries

1.3.3. Python doesn’t check variable types at compile time

1.4. Why learn Python 3?

1.5. Summary

Chapter 2. Getting started

2.1. Installing Python

2.2. IDLE and the basic interactive mode

2.2.1. The basic interactive mode

2.2.2. ...