Python in a nutshell

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Copyright
Preface
	How This Book Is Organized
	Conventions Used in This Book
	How to Contact Us
	Acknowledgments
Part I: Getting Started with Python
	Chapter 1. Introduction to Python
		1.1 The Python Language
		1.2 The Python Standard Library and Extension Modules
		1.3 Python Implementations
		1.4 Python Development and Versions
		1.5 Python Resources
	Chapter 2. Installation
		2.1 Installing Python from Source Code
		2.2 Installing Python from Binaries
		2.3 Installing Jython
	Chapter 3. The Python Interpreter
		3.1 The python Program
		3.2 Python Development Environments
		3.3 Running Python Programs
		3.4 The Jython Interpreter
Part II: Core Python Language and Built-ins
	Chapter 4. The Python Language
		4.1 Lexical Structure
		4.2 Data Types
		4.3 Variables and Other References
		4.4 Expressions and Operators
		4.5 Numeric Operations
		4.6 Sequence Operations
		4.7 Dictionary Operations
		4.8 The print Statement
		4.9 Control Flow Statements
		4.10 Functions
	Chapter 5. Object-Oriented Python
		5.1 Classic Classes and Instances
		5.2 New-Style Classes and Instances
		5.3 Special Methods
		5.4 Metaclasses
	Chapter 6. Exceptions
		6.1 The try Statement
		6.2 Exception Propagation
		6.3 The raise Statement
		6.4 Exception Objects
		6.5 Custom Exception Classes
		6.6 Error-Checking Strategies
	Chapter 7. Modules
		7.1 Module Objects
		7.2 Module Loading
		7.3 Packages
		7.4 The Distribution Utilities (distutils)
	Chapter 8. Core Built-ins
		8.1 Built-in Types
		8.2 Built-in Functions
		8.3 The sys Module
		8.4 The getopt Module
		8.5 The copy Module
		8.6 The bisect Module
		8.7 The UserList, UserDict, and UserString Modules
	Chapter 9. Strings and Regular Expressions
		9.1 Methods of String Objects
		9.2 The string Module
		9.3 String Formatting
		9.4 The pprint Module
		9.5 The repr Module
		9.6 Unicode
		9.7 Regular Expressions and the re Module
Part III: Python Library and Extension Modules
	Chapter 10. File and Text Operations
		10.1 The os Module
		10.2 Filesystem Operations
		10.3 File Objects
		10.4 Auxiliary Modules for File I/O
		10.5 The StringIO and cStringIO Modules
		10.6 Compressed Files
		10.7 Text Input and Output
		10.8 Richer-Text I/O
		10.9 Interactive Command Sessions
		10.10 Internationalization
	Chapter 11. Persistence and Databases
		11.1 Serialization
		11.2 DBM Modules
		11.3 The Berkeley DB Module
		11.4 The Python Database API (DBAPI) 2.0
	Chapter 12. Time Operations
		12.1 The time Module
		12.2 The sched Module
		12.3 The calendar Module
		12.4 The mx.DateTime Module
	Chapter 13. Controlling Execution
		13.1 Dynamic Execution and the exec Statement
		13.2 Restricted Execution
		13.3 Internal Types
		13.4 Garbage Collection
		13.5 Termination Functions
		13.6 Site and User Customization
	Chapter 14. Threads and Processes
		14.1 Threads in Python
		14.2 The thread Module
		14.3 The Queue Module
		14.4 The threading Module
		14.5 Threaded Program Architecture
		14.6 Process Environment
		14.7 Running Other Programs
		14.8 The mmap Module
	Chapter 15. Numeric Processing
		15.1 The math and cmath Modules
		15.2 The operator Module
		15.3 The random Module
		15.4 The array Module
		15.5 The Numeric Package
		15.6 Array Objects
		15.7 Universal Functions (ufuncs)
		15.8 Optional Numeric Modules
	Chapter 16. Tkinter GUIs
		16.1 Tkinter Fundamentals
		16.2 Widget Fundamentals
		16.3 Commonly Used Simple Widgets
		16.4 Container Widgets
		16.5 Menus
		16.6 The Text Widget
		16.7 The Canvas Widget
		16.8 Geometry Management
		16.9 Tkinter Events
	Chapter 17. Testing, Debugging, and Optimizing
		17.1 Testing
		17.2 Debugging
		17.3 The warnings Module
		17.4 Optimization
Part IV: Network and Web Programming
	Chapter 18. Client-Side Network Protocol Modules
		18.1 URL Access
		18.2 Email Protocols
		18.3 The HTTP and FTP Protocols
		18.4 Network News
		18.5 Telnet
		18.6 Distributed Computing
	Chapter 19. Sockets and Server-Side Network Protocol Modules
		19.1 The socket Module
		19.2 The SocketServer Module
		19.3 Event-Driven Socket Programs
	Chapter 20. CGI Scripting and Alternatives
		20.1 CGI in Python
		20.2 Cookies
		20.3 Other Server-Side Approaches
	Chapter 21. MIME and Network Encodings
		21.1 Encoding Binary Data as Text
		21.2 MIME and Email Format Handling
	Chapter 22. Structured Text: HTML
		22.1 The sgmllib Module
		22.2 The htmllib Module
		22.3 The HTMLParser Module
		22.4 Generating HTML
	Chapter 23. Structured Text: XML
		23.1 An Overview of XML Parsing
		23.2 Parsing XML with SAX
		23.3 Parsing XML with DOM
		23.4 Changing and Generating XML
Part V: Extending and Embedding
	Chapter 24. Extending and Embedding Classic Python
		24.1 Extending Python with Python's C API
		24.2 Extending Python Without Python's C API
		24.3 Embedding Python
	Chapter 25. Extending and Embedding Jython
		25.1 Importing Java Packages in Jython
		25.2 Embedding Jython in Java
		25.3 Compiling Python into Java
	Chapter 26. Distributing Extensions and Programs
		26.1 Python's distutils
		26.2 The py2exe Tool
		26.3 The Installer Tool
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