Learning Python : Powerful Object-Oriented Programming

by Lutz, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780596513986
• ISBN10: 0596513984
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

First off, Learning Python shows the relationships among Python scripts and their interpreter (in a mostly platform-neutral way). Then, the authors address the mechanics of the language itself, providing illustrations of how Python conceives of numbers, strings, and other objects as well as the operators you use to work with them. Dictionaries, lists, tuples, and other data structures specific to Python receive plenty of attention including complete examples.

Author Biography

Mark Lutz is the world leader in Python training, the author of Python's earliest and best-selling texts, and a pioneering figure in the Python community since 1992. He is also the author of O'Reilly's Programming Python, 3rd Edition and Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition. Mark began teaching Python classes in 1997, and has instructed more than 200 Python training sessions as of 2007. Mark also has BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and 25 years of software development experience. Whenever Mark gets a break from spreading the Python word, he leads an ordinary, average life with his kids in Colorado. Mark can be reached by email at , or on the web at http://www.rmi.net/~lutz.

Table of Contents

A Python Q&A Session	p. 3
How Python Runs Programs	p. 22
How You Run Programs	p. 34
Introducing Python Object Types	p. 65
Numbers	p. 93
The Dynamic Typing Interlude	p. 112
Strings	p. 123
Lists and Dictionaries	p. 152
Tuples, Files, and Everything Else	p. 172
Introducing Python Statements	p. 201
Assignment, Expressions, and print	p. 217
If Tests	p. 236
While and for Loops	p. 248
The Documentation Interlude	p. 278
Function Basics	p. 299
Scopes and Arguments	p. 310
Advanced Function Topics	p. 344
Modules: The Big Picture	p. 385
Module Coding Basics	p. 398
Module Packages	p. 415
Advanced Module Topics	p. 426
OOP: The Big Picture	p. 451
Class Coding Basics	p. 465
Class Coding Details	p. 481
Designing with Classes	p. 518
Advanced Class Topics	p. 539
Exception Basics	p. 575
Exception Objects	p. 602
Designing with Exceptions	p. 617
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