Modern Python Cookbook

Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 About the Author
 About the Reviewers
 www.PacktPub.com
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Numbers, Strings, and Tuples
 Introduction
 Creating meaningful names and using variables
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 Choosing names wisely
 Assigning names to objects
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Working with large and small integers
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Choosing between float, decimal, and fraction
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 Doing currency calculations
 Fraction calculations. Floating-point approximationsConverting numbers from one type to another
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Choosing between true division and floor division
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 Doing floor division
 Doing true division
 Rational fraction calculations
 How it works ... 
 See also
 Rewriting an immutable string
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 Slicing a piece of a string
 Updating a string with a replacement
 Making a string all lowercase
 Removing extra punctuation marks
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 String parsing with regular expressions
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... How it works ... There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Building complex strings with \"template\".format()
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Building complex strings from lists of characters
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more
 See also
 Using the Unicode characters that aren\'t on our keyboards
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 See also
 Encoding strings --
creating ASCII and UTF-8 bytes
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 See also
 Decoding bytes --
how to get proper characters from some bytes
 Getting ready
 How to do it. How it works ... See also
 Using tuples of items
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 Creating tuples
 Extracting items from a tuple
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more
 See also ... 
 Chapter 2: Statements and Syntax
 Introduction
 Writing Python script and module files --
syntax basics
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Writing long lines of code
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 Using backslash to break a long statement into logical lines
 Using the () characters to break a long statement into sensible pieces
 Using string literal concatenation. Assigning intermediate results to separate variablesHow it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Including descriptions and documentation
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 Writing docstrings for scripts
 Writing docstrings for library modules
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Writing better RST markup in docstrings
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 Using directives
 Using inline markup
 See also
 Designing complex if ... elif chains
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There\'s more ... 
 See also
 Designing a while statement which terminates properly
 Getting ready.