Python Tutorial

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Python Tutorial

Guido van Rossum
Fred L. Drake, Jr., editor

PythonLabs
Email: docs@python.org

Release 2.3.2
October 3, 2003

Front Matter
Contents
1. Whetting Your Appetite
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
3. An Informal Introduction to Python
- 3.1 Using Python as a Calculator
- 3.2 First Steps Towards Programming
4. More Control Flow Tools
5. Data Structures
6. Modules
7. Input and Output
- 7.1 Fancier Output Formatting
- 7.2 Reading and Writing Files
  - 7.2.1 Methods of File Objects
  - 7.2.2 The pickle Module
8. Errors and Exceptions
9. Classes
10. What Now?
A. Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
B. Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations
- B.1 Representation Error
C. History and License
- C.1 History of the software
- C.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python
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