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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| General Application Topics | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Introduction/Motivation | |
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| Special Symbols and Characters | |
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| Regexes and Python | |
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| Some Regex Examples | |
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| A Longer Regex Example | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Network Programming | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Client/Server Architecture? | |
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| Sockets: Communication Endpoints | |
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| Network Programming in Python | |
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| The SocketServer Module | |
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| Introduction to the Twisted Framework | |
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| Related Modules | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Internet Client Programming | |
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| What are Internet Clients? | |
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| Transferring Files | |
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| Network News | |
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| E-Mail | |
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| Related Modules | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Multithreaded Programming | |
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| Introduction/Motivation | |
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| Threads and Processes | |
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| Threads and Python | |
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| The thread Module | |
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| The threading Module | |
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| Comparing Single vs. Multithreaded Execution | |
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| Multithrading in Practice | |
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| Producer-Consumr Problem and the Queue/queue Module | |
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| Alternative Considerations to Threads | |
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| Related Modules | |
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| Exercises | |
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| GUI Programming | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Tkinter and Python Programming | |
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| Tkinter Examples | |
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| A Brief Tour of Other GUIs | |
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| Related Modules and Other GUIs | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Database Programming | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Python DB-API | |
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| ORMs | |
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| Non-Relational Databases | |
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| Related References | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Programming Microsoft Office | |
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| Introduction | |
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| COM Client Programming with Python | |
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| Introductory Examples | |
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| Intermediate Examples | |
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| Related Modules/Packages | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Extending Python | |
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| Introduction/Motivation | |
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| Extending Python by Writing Extensions | |
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| Related Topics | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Web Development | |
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| Web Clients and Servers | |
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| Iintroduction | |
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| Python Web Client Tools | |
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| Web Clients | |
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| Web (HTTP) Servers | |
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| Related Modules | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Web Programming: CGI and WSGI | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Helping Web Servers Process Client Data | |
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| Building CGI Applications | |
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| Using Unicode with CGI | |
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| Advanced CGI | |
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| Introduction to WSGI | |
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| Real-World Web Development | |
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| Related Modules | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Web Frameworks: Django | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Web Frameworks | |
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| Introduction to Django | |
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| Projects and Apps | |
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| Your "Hello World" Application (A Blog) | |
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| Creating a Model to Add Database Service | |
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| The Python Application Shell | |
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| The Django Administration App | |
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| Creating the Blog's User Interface | |
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| Improving the Output | |
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| Working with User Input | |
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| Forms and Model Forms | |
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| More About Views | |
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| Look-and-Feel Improvements | |
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| Unit Testing | |
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| An Intermediate Django App: The TweetApprover | |
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| Resources | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Cloud Computing: Google App Engine | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Cloud Computing? | |
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| The Sandbox and the App Engine SDK | |
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| Choosing an App Engine Framework | |
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| Python 2.7 Support | |
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| Comparisons to Django | |
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| Morphing "Hello World" into a Simple Blog | |
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| Adding Memcache Service | |
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| Static Files | |
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| Adding Users Service | |
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| Remote API Shell | |
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| Lightning Round (with Python Code) | |
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| Sending Instant Messages by Using XMPP | |
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| Processing Images | |
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| Task Queues (Unscheduled Tasks) | |
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| Profiling with Appstats | |
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| The URLfetch Service | |
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| Lightning Round (without Python Code) | |
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| Vendor Lock-In | |
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| Resources | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Web Services | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Yahoo! Finance Stock Quote Server | |
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| Microblogging with Twitter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Supplemental/Experimental | |
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| Text Processing | |
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| Comma-Separated Values | |
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| JavaScript Object Notation | |
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| Extensible Markup Language | |
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| References | |
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| Related Modules | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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| Jython | |
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| Google+ | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Answers to Selected Exercises | |
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| Reference Tables | |
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| Python 3: The Evolution of a Programming Language | |
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| Why is Python Changing? | |
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| What has Changed? | |
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| Migration Tools | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Python 3 Migration with 2.6+ | |
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| Python 3: The Next Generation | |
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| Integers | |
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| Built-in Functions | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming: Two Different Class Objects | |
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| Strings | |
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| Exceptions | |
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| Other Transition Tools and Tips | |
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| Writing Code that is Compatible in Both Versions 2.x and 3.x | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |