Python Pocket Reference
1st Edition
Published on 24. February 2005
160 pages
978-0-596-52898-0 (ISBN)
Description
Python is optimized for quality, productivity, portability, and integration. Hundreds of thousands of Python developers around the world rely on Python for general-purpose tasks, Internet scripting, systems programming, user interfaces, and product customization. Available on all major computing platforms, including commercial versions of Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, Python is portable, powerful and remarkable easy to use.With its convenient, quick-reference format, Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition is the perfect on-the-job reference. More importantly, it's now been refreshed to cover the language's latest release, Python 2.4. For experienced Python developers, this book is a compact toolbox that delivers need-to-know information at the flip of a page. This third edition also includes an easy-lookup index to help developers find answers fast!Python 2.4 is more than just optimization and library enhancements; it's also chock full of bug fixes and upgrades. And these changes are addressed in the Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition. New language features, new and upgraded built-ins, and new and upgraded modules and packages--they're all clarified in detail.The Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition serves as the perfect companion to Learning Python and Programming Python.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Python Pocket Reference
- Introduction
- Conventions
- Command-Line Options
- Python Options
- Program Specification
- Environment Variables
- Built-in Types and Operators
- Operators and Precedence
- Operations by Category
- Sequence Operation Notes
- Indexing: S[i]
- Slicing: S[i:j]
- Slicing: S[i:j:k]
- Other
- Specific Built-in Types
- Numbers
- Literals
- Operations
- Strings
- Literals
- Operations
- String formatting
- Template string substitution
- String methods
- Searching
- Splitting and joining
- Formatting
- Content tests
- The original string module
- Unicode Strings
- Literals
- Operations
- Lists
- Literals and creation
- Operations
- List comprehension expressions
- Generator expressions
- Dictionaries
- Literals and creation
- Operations
- Tuples
- Literals
- Operations
- Files
- Input files
- Output files
- Any files
- Attributes (all read-only)
- Notes
- Other Common Types
- Boolean
- Sets
- Decimal
- Type Conversions
- Statements and Syntax
- Syntax Rules
- Name Rules
- Name format
- Name conventions
- Specific Statements
- Assignment
- Augmented assignment
- Expressions
- apply( )-like call syntax
- The print Statement
- Extended print form
- The if Statement
- The while Statement
- The for Statement
- The pass Statement
- The break Statement
- The continue Statement
- The del Statement
- The exec Statement
- The def Statement
- lambda expressions
- Function and method decorators
- The return Statement
- The yield Statement
- Generators and iterators
- The global Statement
- The import Statement
- Package imports
- The from Statement
- The class Statement
- The try Statement
- The raise Statement
- Class exceptions
- The assert Statement
- Namespace and Scope Rules
- Qualified Names: Object Namespaces
- Unqualified Names: Lexical Scopes
- Statically Nested Scopes
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Classes and Instances
- Class objects provide default behavior
- Instance objects are generated from classes
- Inheritance rules
- Pseudo-Private Attributes
- Module privates
- Class privates
- New Style Classes
- Operator Overloading Methods
- For All Types
- For Collections (Sequences, Mappings)
- For Numbers (Binary Operators)
- Basic binary methods
- Right-side binary methods
- Augmented binary methods
- For Numbers (Other Operations)
- Built-in Functions
- Built-in Exceptions
- Base Classes (Categories)
- Specific Exceptions Raised
- Warning Category Exceptions
- Warnings Framework
- Built-in Attributes
- Built-in Modules
- The sys Module
- The string Module
- Module Functions
- Constants
- The os System Module
- Administrative Tools
- Portability Constants
- Shell Commands
- Environment Tools
- File Descriptor Tools
- File Pathname Tools
- Process Control
- The os.path Module
- The re Pattern-Matching Module
- Module Functions
- Regular Expression Objects
- Match Objects
- Pattern Syntax
- Object Persistence Modules
- anydbm and shelve Interfaces
- Notes
- pickle Interface
- Notes
- Tkinter GUI Module and Tools
- Tkinter Example
- Tkinter Core Widgets
- Common Dialog Calls
- Module tkMessageBox
- Module tkSimpleDialog
- Module tkColorChooser
- Module tkFileDialog
- Additional Tkinter Classes and Tools
- Tcl/Tk-to-Python/Tkinter Mappings
- Internet Modules and Tools
- Commonly Used Library Modules
- Other Built-in Modules
- The math Module
- The time Module
- The datetime Module
- Threading Modules
- Binary Data Parsing
- Python Portable SQL Database API
- API Usage Example
- Module Interface
- Connection Objects
- Cursor Objects
- Type Objects and Constructors
- Python Idioms and Hints
- Core Language Hints
- Environment Hints
- Usage Hints
- Assorted Hints
- Index
