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Content: Part I The Beginning --
1 Introducing Python 3 --
\"And Now for Something Completely Different\" 3 --
Python Philosophy 101 3 --
The Life of Python 8 --
Signs of the Python Times 9 --
The Compulsory Features List 15 --
What\'s Python Good For? 17 --
What\'s Python Not Good For? 20 --
Truth in Advertising 22 --
2 A Sneak Preview 24 --
\"Programming Python: The Short Story\" 24 --
The Task 24 --
Step 1 Representing Records 25 --
Step 2 Storing Records Persistently 35 --
Step 3 Stepping Up to OOP 47 --
Step 4 Adding Console Interaction 57 --
Step 5 Adding a GUI 60 --
Step 6 Adding a Web Interface 70 --
The End of the Demo 86 --
Part II System Programming --
3 System Tools 89 --
\"The os.path to Knowledge\" 89 --
System Scripting Overview 90 --
Introducing the sys Module 100 --
Introducing the os Module 104 --
Script Execution Context 113 --
Current Working Directory 114 --
Command-Line Arguments 117 --
Shell Environment Variables 119 --
Standard Streams 123 --
4 File and Directory Tools 142 --
\"Erase Your Hard Drive in Five Easy Steps!\" 142 --
File Tools 142 --
Directory Tools 159 --
5 Parallel System Tools 175 --
\"Telling the Monkeys What to Do\" 175 --
Forking Processes 176 --
Threads 183 --
Program Exits 201 --
Interprocess Communication 208 --
Pipes 209 --
Signals 218 --
Other Ways to Start Programs 221 --
A Portable Program-Launch Framework 230 --
Other System Tools 235 --
6 System Examples: Utilities 236 --
\"Splits and Joins and Alien Invasions\" 236 --
Splitting and Joining Files 237 --
Generating Forward-Link Web Pages 247 --
A Regression Test Script 251 --
Packing and Unpacking Files 254 --
Automated Program Launchers 265 --
7 System Examples: Directories 294 --
\"The Greps of Wrath\" 294 --
Fixing DOS Line Ends 294 --
Fixing DOS Filenames 307 --
Searching Directory Trees 311 --
Visitor: Walking Trees Generically 317 --
Copying Directory Trees 339 --
Deleting Directory Trees 345 --
Comparing Directory Trees 349 --
Part III GUI Programming --
8 Graphical User Interfaces 365 --
\"Here\'s Looking at You, Kid\" 365 --
Python GUI Development Options 367 --
Tkinter Overview 371 --
Climbing the GUI Learning Curve 375 --
Tkinter Coding Basics 377 --
Tkinter Coding Alternatives 380 --
Adding Buttons and Callbacks 386 --
Adding User-Defined Callback Handlers 389 --
Adding Multiple Widgets 401 --
Customizing Widgets with Classes 406 --
Reusable GUI Components with Classes 408 --
The End of the Tutorial 414 --
Python/Tkinter for Tcl/Tk Converts 416 --
9 A Tkinter Tour, Part 1 418 --
\"Widgets and Gadgets and GUIs, Oh My!\" 418 --
Configuring Widget Appearance 419 --
Top-Level Windows 422 --
Dialogs 427 --
Binding Events 443 --
Message and Entry 448 --
Checkbutton, Radiobutton, and Scale 456 --
Running GUI Code Three Ways 468 --
Images 478 --
Viewing and Processing Images with PIL 483 --
10 A Tkinter Tour, Part 2 499 --
\"On Today\'s Menu: Spam, Spam, and Spam\" 499 --
Menus 499 --
Listboxes and Scrollbars 511 --
Text 517 --
Canvas 529 --
Grids 543 --
Time Tools, Threads, and Animation 559 --
The End of the Tour 570 --
The PyDemos and PyGadgets Launchers 571 --
11 GUI Coding Techniques 583 --
\"Building a Better Mouse Trap\" 583 --
GuiMixin: Common Tool Mixin Classes 584 --
GuiMaker: Automating Menus and Toolbars 586 --
ShellGui: GUIs for Command-Line Tools 597 --
GuiStreams: Redirecting Streams to Widgets 605 --
Reloading Callback Handlers Dynamically 609 --
Wrapping Up Top-Level Window Interfaces 611 --
GUIs, Threads, and Queues 616 --
More Ways to Add GUIs to Non-GUI Code 624 --
12 Complete GUI Programs 636 --
\"Python, Open Source, and Camaros\" 636 --
PyEdit: A Text Editor Program/Object 638 --
PyPhoto: An Image Viewer and Resizer 657 --
PyView: An Image and Notes Slideshow 668 --
PyDraw: Painting and Moving Graphics 676 --
PyClock: An Analog/Digital Clock Widget 685 --
PyToe: A Tic-Tac-Toe Game Widget 700 --
Where to Go from Here 704 --
Part IV Internet Programming --
13 Network Scripting 709 --
\"Tune In, Log On, and Drop Out\" 709 --
Plumbing the Internet 713 --
Socket Programming 720 --
Handling Multiple Clients 732 --
A Simple Python File Server 753 --
14 Client-Side Scripting 766 --
\"Socket to Me!\" 766 --
FTP: Transferring Files over the Net 767 --
Processing Internet Email 808 --
POP: Fetching Email 809 --
SMTP: Sending Email 817 --
email: Parsing and Composing Mails 826 --
pymail: A Console-Based Email Client 831 --
The mailtools Utility Package 839 --
NNTP: Accessing Newsgroups 862 --
HTTP: Accessing Web Sites 866 --
Module urllib Revisited 869 --
Other Client-Side Scripting Options 874 --
15 The PyMailGUI Client 876 --
\"Use the Source, Luke\" 876 --
A PyMailGUI Demo 883 --
PyMailGUI Implementation 911 --
16 Server-Side Scripting 962 --
\"Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave\" 962 --
What\'s a Server-Side CGI Script? 962 --
Running Server-Side Examples 966 --
Climbing the CGI Learning Curve 971 --
Saving State Information in CGI Scripts 1011 --
The Hello World Selector 1020 --
Refactoring Code for Maintainability 1029 --
More on HTML and URL Escapes 1038 --
Transferring Files to Clients and Servers 1046 --
17 The PyMailCGI Server 1063 --
\"Things to Do When Visiting Chicago\" 1063 --
The PyMailCGI Web Site 1064 --
The Root Page 1070 --
Sending Mail by SMTP 1073 --
Reading POP Email 1080 --
Processing Fetched Mail 1097 --
Utility Modules 1106 --
CGI Script Trade-Offs 1121 --
18 Advanced Internet Topics 1129 --
\"Surfing on the Shoulders of Giants\" 1129 --
Zope: A Web Application Framework 1130 --
HTMLgen: Web Pages from Objects 1145 --
Jython: Python for Java 1150 --
Grail: A Python-Based Web Browser 1161 --
XML Processing Tools 1164 --
Windows Web Scripting Extensions 1169 --
Python Server Pages 1186 --
Rolling Your Own Servers in Python 1189 --
And Other Cool Stuff 1190 --
Part V Tools and Techniques --
19 Databases and Persistence 1197 --
\"Give Me an Order of Persistence, but Hold the Pickles\" 1197 --
Persistence Options in Python 1197 --
DBM Files 1198 --
Pickled Objects 1201 --
Shelve Files 1207 --
The ZODB Object-Oriented Database 1216 --
SQL Database Interfaces 1227 --
PyForm: A Persistent Object Viewer 1254 --
20 Data Structures 1280 --
\"Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue
 Lists Are Mutable, and So Is Set Foo\" 1280 --
Implementing Stacks 1281 --
Implementing Sets 1293 --
Subclassing Built-In Types 1304 --
Binary Search Trees 1307 --
Graph Searching 1312 --
Reversing Sequences 1316 --
Permuting Sequences 1318 --
Sorting Sequences 1320 --
Data Structures Versus Python Built-Ins 1322 --
PyTree: A Generic Tree Object Viewer 1323 --
21 Text and Language 1336 --
\"See Jack Hack. Hack, Jack, Hack\" 1336 --
Strategies for Parsing Text in Python 1336 --
String Method Utilities 1337 --
Regular Expression Pattern Matching 1346 --
Advanced Language Tools 1357 --
Handcoded Parsers 1359 --
PyCalc: A Calculator Program/Object 1377 --
Part VI Integration --
22 Extending Python 1405 --
\"I Am Lost at C\" 1405 --
Integration Modes 1406 --
C Extensions Overview 1408 --
A Simple C Extension Module 1409 --
Extension Module Details 1412 --
The SWIG Integration Code Generator 1422 --
Wrapping C Environment Calls 1428 --
A C Extension Module String Stack 1434 --
A C Extension Type String Stack 1439 --
Wrapping C++ Classes with SWIG 1451 --
Other Extending Tools 1460 --
23 Embedding Python 1463 --
\"Add Python. Mix Well. Repeat.\" 1463 --
C Embedding API Overview 1463 --
Basic Embedding Techniques 1466 --
Registering Callback Handler Objects 1478 --
Using Python Classes in C 1483 --
A High-Level Embedding API: ppembed 1486 --
Other Integration Topics 1499 --
24 Conclusion: Python and the Development Cycle 1507 --
\"That\'s the End of the Book, Now Here\'s the Meaning of Life\" 1507 --
\"Something\'s Wrong with the Way We Program Computers\" 1507 --
The \"Gilligan Factor\" 1508 --
Doing the Right Thing 1509 --
Enter Python 1510 --
But What About That Bottleneck? 1512 --
On Sinking the Titanic 1516 --
So What\'s \"Python: The Sequel\"? 1518 --
In the Final Analysis 1519.