Dive into Python Study Notes

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General Programming in Python

• Installing Python
• First Python Program
  • 2.1 Diving in
  • 2.2 Documenting Functions
  • 2.3 Everything is an object
  • 2.4 The import Search Path
  • 2.5 Indenting Code
  • 2.6 Testing Modules
• Native Datatypes
  • 3.1. Dictionaries
  • 3.2. Lists
  • 3.3. Tuples
  • 3.4. Declaring variables
  • 3.5. Formatting Strings
  • 3.6. Mapping Lists
  • 3.7. Joining Lists and Splitting Strings
• The power of Introspection
  • 4.1. Diving In
  • 4.2. Using Optional and Named Arguments
  • 4.3. Built-in Functions
  • 4.4. Getting Object References With getattr
  • 4.5. Filtering Lists
  • 4.6. The Peculiar Nature of and and or
  • 4.7 Using lambda Functions
  • 4.8 Putting It All Together
• Objects and Object-Orientation
  • 5.1. Diving In
  • 5.2. Importing Modules Using from module import
  • 5.3. Defining Classes
  • 5.4. Instantiating Classes
  • 5.5. Exploring UserDict: A Wrapper Class
  • 5.6. Special Class Methods
  • 5.7. Advanced Special Class Methods
  • 5.8. Introducing Class Attributes
  • 5.9. Private Functions
• Exceptions and File Handling
  • 6.1. Handling Exceptions
  • 6.2. Working with File Object
  • 6.3. Iterating with for Loops
  • 6.4. Using sys.modules
  • 6.5. Working with Directories
  • 6.6. Putting it All Together
• Regular Expression
  • 7.1. Diving In
  • 7.2. Case Study: Street Addresses
  • 7.3. Case Study: Roman Numerals
  • 7.4. Verbose Regular Expressions
  • 7.5. Case Study: Parsing Phone Numbers
  • 7.6. Further Reading
• Unit Testing
  • 13.1 Introduction to Roman numerals
  • 13.2 Introduction to Unit Testing
  • 13.3 Introducing romantest.py
  • 13.4 Testing for success
  • 13.5 Testing for failure
  • 13.6 Testing for Sanity

Web-Oriented Python Programming

• HTML Processing
• XML Processing
• Scripts and Streams
• HTTP Web Services
• SOAP Web Services

Miscellaneous Stuff

• Errata
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