Python Programming
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This book describes Python 2.x and where noted, Python 3.x. Python is an open-source general-purpose interpreted imperative programming language that has some functional capabilities and constructs. Python has distributions available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, BSD, web browser environments (NCLab, Sage) and many other platforms. There are currently three major implementations: the standard implementation written in C, Jython written in Java, and IronPython written in C# for the .NET environment.
Contents[edit]
Getting Started[edit]
Fundamentals[edit]
- Basic Syntax
- Variables and Strings
- Sequences (Strings, Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries, Sets)
- Data types
- Operators
- Basic Math
- Control Flow
- Decision Control
- Input and output
- Files
Code Reuse[edit]
- Functions
- Scoping
- Classes
- Metaclasses
- Decorators
- Namespace
- Modules
- Modules and how to use them
- Errors
- Exceptions
- Source Documentation and Comments
- Reflection
- Tips and Tricks
Standard Library Modules[edit]
- Standard Library
- Regular Expression
- XML Tools
- Threading
- Sockets
- GUI Programming
- WSGI web programming
- Extracting info from web pages
- Internet
- Networks
Third-party modules[edit]
- Databases -- to be merged with the following chapter
- Database Programming
- numpy
- Game Programming in Python
- PyQt4
- Dbus
- pyFormex
- matplotlib
- Natural Language Toolkit
- HTTP Tools
Writing extension modules[edit]
- Extending with C
- Extending with C++
- Extending with Pyrex
- Extending with ctypes
- Extending with Perl
- Extending with R
Appendices[edit]
See also[edit]
- Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6
- Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 3
- Python as a scripting language in GIMP
