Programming Python, 3rd Edition

Programming Python, 3rd Edition Table of Contents Foreword How Time Flies! Coming Attractions Concluding Remarks Foreword to the Second Edition (2001) Foreword from the First Edition (1996) Preface "And Now for Something Completely Different . . . Again" About This Book About This Edition Python Changes Example Changes Topic Changes Focus Unchanged This Book's Motivation This Book's Structure This Edition's Design It's Been Updated for Python 2.4 (and 2.5) It's Been Reorganized It Covers New Topics It's Still Mostly Platform-Neutral It's Still Focused for a More Advanced Audience It's Still Example-Oriented Using the Book's Examples The Book Examples Tree The Book Examples Distribution Package Running Examples: The Short Story Running Examples: The Details Conventions Used in This Book Safari® Enabled Where to Look for Updates Contacting O'Reilly Using Code Examples Acknowledgments I. The Beginning 1. Introducing Python 1.1. "And Now for Something Completely Different" 1.2. Python Philosophy 101 1.3. The Life of Python 1.4. Signs of the Python Times 1.4.1. Recent Growth (As of 2005, at Least) 1.5. The Compulsory Features L......