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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Beginning | |
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| Introducing Python | |
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| "And Now for Something Completely Different" | |
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| Python Philosophy 101 | |
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| The Life of Python | |
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| Signs of the Python Times | |
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| The Compulsory Features List | |
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| What's Python Good For? | |
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| What's Python Not Good For? | |
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| Truth in Advertising | |
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| A Sneak Preview | |
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| "Programming Python: The Short Story" | |
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| The Task | |
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| Representing Records | |
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| Storing Records Persistently | |
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| Stepping Up to OOP | |
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| Adding Console Interaction | |
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| Adding a GUI | |
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| Adding a Web Interface | |
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| The End of the Demo | |
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| System Programming | |
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| System Tools | |
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| "The os.path to Knowledge" | |
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| System Scripting Overview | |
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| Introducing the sys Module | |
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| Introducing the os Module | |
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| Script Execution Context | |
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| Current Working Directory | |
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| Command-Line Arguments | |
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| Shell Environment Variables | |
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| Standard Streams | |
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| File and Directory Tools | |
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| "Erase Your Hard Drive in Five Easy Steps!" | |
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| File Tools | |
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| Directory Tools | |
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| Parallel System Tools | |
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| "Telling the Monkeys What to Do" | |
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| Forking Processes | |
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| Threads | |
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| Program Exits | |
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| Interprocess Communication | |
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| Pipes | |
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| Signals | |
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| Other Ways to Start Programs | |
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| A Portable Program-Launch Framework | |
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| Other System Tools | |
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| System Examples: Utilities | |
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| "Splits and Joins and Alien Invasions" | |
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| Splitting and Joining Files | |
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| Generating Forward-Link Web Pages | |
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| A Regression Test Script | |
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| Packing and Unpacking Files | |
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| Automated Program Launchers | |
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| System Examples: Directories | |
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| "The Greps of Wrath" | |
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| Fixing DOS Line Ends | |
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| Fixing DOS Filenames | |
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| Searching Directory Trees | |
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| Visitor: Walking Trees Generically | |
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| Copying Directory Trees | |
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| Deleting Directory Trees | |
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| Comparing Directory Trees | |
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| GUI Programming | |
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| Graphical User Interfaces | |
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| "Here's Looking at You, Kid" | |
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| Python GUI Development Options | |
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| Tkinter Overview | |
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| Climbing the GUI Learning Curve | |
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| Tkinter Coding Basics | |
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| Tkinter Coding Alternatives | |
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| Adding Buttons and Callbacks | |
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| Adding User-Defined Callback Handlers | |
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| Adding Multiple Widgets | |
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| Customizing Widgets with Classes | |
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| Reusable GUI Components with Classes | |
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| The End of the Tutorial | |
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| Python/Tkinter for Tcl/Tk Converts | |
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| A Tkinter Tour, Part 1 | |
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| "Widgets and Gadgets and GUIs, Oh My!" | |
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| Configuring Widget Appearance | |
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| Top-Level Windows | |
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| Dialogs | |
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| Binding Events | |
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| Message and Entry | |
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| Checkbutton, Radiobutton, and Scale | |
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| Running GUI Code Three Ways | |
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| Images | |
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| Viewing and Processing Images with PIL | |
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| A Tkinter Tour, Part 2 | |
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| "On Today's Menu: Spam, Spam, and Spam" | |
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| Menus | |
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| Listboxes and Scrollbars | |
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| Text | |
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| Canvas | |
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| Grids | |
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| Time Tools, Threads, and Animation | |
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| The End of the Tour | |
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| The PyDemos and PyGadgets Launchers | |
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| GUI Coding Techniques | |
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| "Building a Better Mouse Trap" | |
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| GuiMixin: Common Tool Mixin Classes | |
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| GuiMaker: Automating Menus and Toolbars | |
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| ShellGui: GUIs for Command-Line Tools | |
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| GuiStreams: Redirecting Streams to Widgets | |
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| Reloading Callback Handlers Dynamically | |
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| Wrapping Up Top-Level Window Interfaces | |
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| GUIs, Threads, and Queues | |
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| More Ways to Add GUIs to Non-GUI Code | |
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| Complete GUI Programs | |
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| "Python, Open Source, and Camaros" | |
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| PyEdit: A Text Editor Program/Object | |
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| PyPhoto: An Image Viewer and Resizer | |
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| PyView: An Image and Notes Slideshow | |
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| PyDraw: Painting and Moving Graphics | |
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| PyClock: An Analog/Digital Clock Widget | |
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| PyToe: A Tic-Tac-Toe Game Widget | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Internet Programming | |
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| Network Scripting | |
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| "Tune In, Log On, and Drop Out" | |
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| Plumbing the Internet | |
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| Socket Programming | |
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| Handling Multiple Clients | |
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| A Simple Python File Server | |
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| Client-Side Scripting | |
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| "Socket to Me!" | |
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| FTP: Transferring Files over the Net | |
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| Processing Internet Email | |
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| POP: Fetching Email | |
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| SMTP: Sending Email | |
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| email: Parsing and Composing Mails | |
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| pymail: A Console-Based Email Client | |
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| The mailtools Utility Package | |
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| NNTP: Accessing Newsgroups | |
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| HTTP: Accessing Web Sites | |
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| Module urllib Revisited | |
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| Other Client-Side Scripting Options | |
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| The PyMailGUI Client | |
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| "Use the Source, Luke" | |
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| A PyMailGUI Demo | |
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| PyMailGUI Implementation | |
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| Server-Side Scripting | |
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| "Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave" | |
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| What's a Server-Side CGI Script? | |
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| Running Server-Side Examples | |
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| Climbing the CGI Learning Curve | |
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| Saving State Information in CGI Scripts | |
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| The Hello World Selector | |
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| Refactoring Code for Maintainability | |
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| More on HTML and URL Escapes | |
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| Transferring Files to Clients and Servers | |
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| The PyMailCGI Server | |
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| "Things to Do When Visiting Chicago" | |
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| The PyMailCGI Web Site | |
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| The Root Page | |
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| Sending Mail by SMTP | |
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| Reading POP Email | |
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| Processing Fetched Mail | |
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| Utility Modules | |
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| CGI Script Trade-Offs | |
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| Advanced Internet Topics | |
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| "Surfing on the Shoulders of Giants" | |
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| Zope: A Web Application Framework | |
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| HTMLgen: Web Pages from Objects | |
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| Jython: Python for Java | |
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| Grail: A Python-Based Web Browser | |
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| XML Processing Tools | |
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| Windows Web Scripting Extensions | |
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| Python Server Pages | |
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| Rolling Your Own Servers in Python | |
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| And Other Cool Stuff | |
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| Tools and Techniques | |
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| Databases and Persistence | |
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| "Give Me an Order of Persistence, but Hold the Pickles" | |
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| Persistence Options in Python | |
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| DBM Files | |
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| Pickled Objects | |
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| Shelve Files | |
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| The ZODB Object-Oriented Database | |
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| SQL Database Interfaces | |
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| PyForm: A Persistent Object Viewer | |
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| Data Structures | |
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| "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue; Lists Are Mutable, and So Is Set Foo" | |
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| Implementing Stacks | |
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| Implementing Sets | |
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| Subclassing Built-In Types | |
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| Binary Search Trees | |
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| Graph Searching | |
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| Reversing Sequences | |
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| Permuting Sequences | |
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| Sorting Sequences | |
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| Data Structures Versus Python Built-Ins | |
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| PyTree: A Generic Tree Object Viewer | |
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| Text and Language | |
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| "See Jack Hack. Hack, Jack, Hack" | |
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| Strategies for Parsing Text in Python | |
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| String Method Utilities | |
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| Regular Expression Pattern Matching | |
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| Advanced Language Tools | |
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| Handcoded Parsers | |
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| PyCalc: A Calculator Program/Object | |
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| Integration | |
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| Extending Python | |
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| "I Am Lost at C" | |
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| Integration Modes | |
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| C Extensions Overview | |
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| A Simple C Extension Module | |
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| Extension Module Details | |
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| The SWIG Integration Code Generator | |
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| Wrapping C Environment Calls | |
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| A C Extension Module String Stack | |
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| A C Extension Type String Stack | |
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| Wrapping C++ Classes with SWIG | |
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| Other Extending Tools | |
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| Embedding Python | |
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| "Add Python. Mix Well. Repeat." | |
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| C Embedding API Overview | |
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| Basic Embedding Techniques | |
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| Registering Callback Handler Objects | |
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| Using Python Classes in C | |
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| A High-Level Embedding API: ppembed | |
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| Other Integration Topics | |
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| The End | |
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| Conclusion: Python and the Development Cycle | |
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| "That's the End of the Book, Now Here's the Meaning of Life" | |
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| "Something's Wrong with the Way We Program Computers" | |
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| The "Gilligan Factor" | |
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| Doing the Right Thing | |
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| Enter Python | |
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| But What About That Bottleneck? | |
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| On Sinking the Titanic | |
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| So What's "Python: The Sequel"? | |
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| In the Final Analysis | |
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| Postscript to the Second Edition (2000) | |
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| Postscript to the Third Edition (2006) | |
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| Index | |