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1 Whetting Your Appetite
1.1 Disclaimer
1.2 Introduction
1.3 Where From Here
2 Using the Python Interpreter
2.1 Invoking the Interpreter
2.1.1 Argument Passing
2.1.2 Interactive Mode
2.2 The Interpreter and its Environment
2.2.1 Error Handling
2.2.2 The Module Search Path
2.2.3 ``Compiled'' Python files
2.2.4 Executable Python scripts
2.2.5 The Interactive Startup File
2.3 Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
2.3.1 Line Editing
2.3.2 History Substitution
2.3.3 Key Bindings
2.3.4 Commentary
3 An Informal Introduction to Python
3.1 Using Python as a Calculator
3.1.1 Numbers
3.1.2 Strings
3.1.3 Lists
3.2 First Steps Towards Programming
4 More Control Flow Tools
4.1 If Statements
4.2 For Statements
4.3 The
range()
Function
4.4 Break and Continue Statements, and Else Clauses on Loops
4.5 Pass Statements
4.6 Defining Functions
5 Odds and Ends
5.1 More on Lists
5.2 The
del
statement
5.3 Tuples and Sequences
5.4 Dictionaries
5.5 More on Conditions
5.6 Comparing Sequences and Other Types
6 Modules
6.1 More on Modules
6.2 Standard Modules
6.3 The
dir()
function
7 Output Formatting
8 Errors and Exceptions
8.1 Syntax Errors
8.2 Exceptions
8.3 Handling Exceptions
8.4 Raising Exceptions
8.5 User-defined Exceptions
8.6 Defining Clean-up Actions
9 Classes
9.1 A word about terminology
9.2 Python scopes and name spaces
9.3 A first look at classes
9.3.1 Class definition syntax
9.3.2 Class objects
9.3.3 Instance objects
9.3.4 Method objects
9.4 Random remarks
9.5 Inheritance
9.5.1 Multiple inheritance
9.6 Odds and ends
10 Recent Additions as of Release 1.1
10.1 The Last Printed Expression
10.2 String Literals
10.2.1 Double Quotes
10.2.2 Continuation Of String Literals
10.2.3 Triple-quoted strings
10.2.4 String Literal Juxtaposition
10.3 The Formatting Operator
10.3.1 Basic Usage
10.3.2 Referencing Variables By Name
10.4 Optional Function Arguments
10.4.1 Default Argument Values
10.4.2 Arbitrary Argument Lists
10.5 Lambda And Functional Programming Tools
10.5.1 Lambda Forms
10.5.2 Map, Reduce and Filter
Map.
Filter.
Reduce.
10.6 Continuation Lines Without Backslashes
10.7 Regular Expressions
10.8 Generalized Dictionaries
10.9 Miscellaneous New Built-in Functions
10.10 Else Clause For Try Statement
10.11 New Class Features in Release 1.1
10.11.1 New Operator Overloading
10.11.2 Trapping Attribute Access
10.11.3 Calling a Class Instance
11 New in Release 1.2
11.1 New Class Features
11.2 Unix Signal Handling
11.3 Exceptions Can Be Classes
11.4 Object Persistency and Object Copying
11.4.1 Persistent Objects
11.4.2 Copying Objects
11.5 Documentation Strings
11.6 Customizing Import and Built-Ins
11.7 Python and the World-Wide Web
11.8 Miscellaneous
12 New in Release 1.3
12.1 Keyword Arguments
12.2 Changes to the WWW and Internet tools
12.3 Other Language Changes
12.4 Changes to Built-in Operations
12.5 Library Changes
12.6 Other Changes
13 New in Release 1.4
13.1 Language Changes
13.2 Run-time Changes
13.3 New or Updated Modules
13.4 Configuration and Installation
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