A Byte of Python (for Python 3.0)

• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Features of Python
  • Why not Perl?
  • Why not Ruby?
  • What Programming Say
  • About Python 3.0
• Chapter 2: First Steps
  • Introduction
  • Using The Interpreter Prompt
  • Choosing An Editor
  • Using A Source File
  • How It Works
  • Executable Python Programs
  • Getting Help
• Chapter 3: Basics
  • Literal Constants
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Single Quotes
  • Double Quotes
  • Triple Quotes
  • Escape Sequences
  • Raw Strings
  • Strings Are Immutable
  • String Literal Concatenation
  • The format Method
  • Variables
  • Identifier Naming
  • Data Types
  • Objects
  • Example: Using Variables And Literal Constants
  • Logical And Physical Lines
  • Indentation
• Chapter 4: Operators and Expressions
  • Introduction
  • Operators
  • Shortcut for math operation and assignment
  • Evaluation Order
  • Changing the Order Of Evaluation
  • Associativity
  • Expressions
• Chapter 5: Control Flow
  • Introduction
  • The if statement
  • The while Statement
  • The for loop
  • The break Statement
  • Swaroop’s Poetic Python
  • The continue Statement
• Chapter 6: Functions
  • Introduction
  • Function Parameters
  • Local Variables
  • Using The global Statement
  • Using nonlocal statement
  • Default Argument Values
  • Keyword Arguments
  • VarArgs parameters
  • Keyword-only Parameters
  • The return Statement
  • DocStrings
  • Annotations
• Chapter 7: Modules
  • Introduction
  • Byte-compiled .pyc files
  • The from ... import ... statement
  • A module’s __name__
  • Making Your Own Modules
  • The dir function
  • Packages
• Chapter 8: Data Structures
  • Introduction
  • List
  • Quick Introduction To Object And Classes
  • Tuple
  • Dictionary
  • Sequences
  • Set
  • References
  • More About Strings
• Chapter 9: Problem Solving
  • The Problem
  • The Solution
  • Second Version
  • Third Version
  • Fourth Version
  • More Refinements
  • The Software Development Process
• Chapter 10: Object Oriented Programming
  • Introduction
  • The self
  • Classes
  • Object Methods
  • The __init__ method
  • Class And Object Variables
  • Inheritance
• Chapter 11: Input Output
  • Introduction
  • Input from user
  • Files
  • Pickle
• Chapter 12: Exceptions
  • Introduction
  • Errors
  • Exceptions
  • Handling Exceptions
  • Raising Exceptions
  • Try .. Finally
  • The with statement
• Chapter 13: Standard Library
  • Introduction
  • sys module
  • logging module
  • urllib and json modules
  • Module of the Week Series
• Chapter 14: More
  • Introduction
  • Passing tuples around
  • Special Methods
  • Single Statement Blocks
  • Lambda Forms
  • List Comprehension
  • Receiving Tuples and Lists in Functions
  • exec and eval
  • The assert statement
  • the repr function