Python Tutorial eBook Download Free
Guido van Rossum
and the Python development team
Python Software Foundation
CONTENTS
1 Whetting Your Appetite
2 Using the Python Interpreter
2.1 Invoking the Interpreter
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
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
4.7 More on Defining Functions
4.8 Intermezzo: Coding Style
5 Data Structures
5.1 More on Lists
5.2 The del statement
5.3 Tuples and Sequences
5.4 Sets
5.5 Dictionaries
5.6 Looping Techniques
5.7 More on Conditions
5.8 Comparing Sequences and Other Types
6 Modules
6.1 More on Modules
6.2 Standard Modules
6.3 The dir() Function
6.4 Packages
7 Input and Output
7.1 Fancier Output Formatting
7.2 Reading and Writing Files
8 Errors and Exceptions
i8.1 Syntax Errors
8.2 Exceptions
8.3 Handling Exceptions
8.4 Raising Exceptions
8.5 User-defined Exceptions
8.6 Defining Clean-up Actions
8.7 Predefined Clean-up Actions
9 Classes
9.1 A Word About Names and Objects
9.2 Python Scopes and Namespaces
9.3 A First Look at Classes
9.4 Random Remarks
9.5 Inheritance
9.6 Private Variables
9.7 Odds and Ends
9.8 Iterators
9.9 Generators
9.10 Generator Expressions
10 Brief Tour of the Standard Library
10.1 Operating System Interface
10.2 File Wildcards
10.3 Command Line Arguments
10.4 Error Output Redirection and Program Termination
10.5 String Pattern Matching
10.6 Mathematics
10.7 Internet Access
10.8 Dates and Times
10.9 Data Compression
10.10 Performance Measurement
10.11 Quality Control
10.12 Batteries Included
11 Brief Tour of the Standard Library — Part II
11.1 Output Formatting
11.2 Templating
11.3 Working with Binary Data Record Layouts
11.4 Multi-threading
11.5 Logging
11.6 Weak References
11.7 Tools for Working with Lists
11.8 Decimal Floating Point Arithmetic
12 Virtual Environments and Packages
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Creating Virtual Environments
12.3 Managing Packages with pip
13 What Now?
14 Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
14.1 Tab Completion and History Editing
14.2 Alternatives to the Interactive Interpreter
ii15 Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations
15.1 Representation Error
16 Appendix
16.1 Interactive Mode
A Glossary
B About these documents
B.1 Contributors to the Python Documentation
C History and License
C.1 History of the software
C.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python
C.3 Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software
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