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| Preface | |
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| Introduction to Python | |
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| What Is Python? | |
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| Language Features | |
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| Python as an Integration Tool | |
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| Case Studies of Python Deployment | |
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| The Python Community | |
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| Installation and Setup | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Python Language Review | |
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| A Crash Course | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Python on Windows | |
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| The Python Core on Windows | |
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| The Python for Windows Extensions | |
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| The Python Imaging Library (PIL) | |
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| PyOpenGL | |
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| Web Publishing Tools | |
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| The mx Extensions | |
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| Scientific Tools | |
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| XML | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Integrated Development Environments for Python | |
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| The PythonWin IDE | |
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| IDLE | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Introduction to COM | |
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| What It Is | |
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| Using COM Objects from Python | |
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| Implementing COM Objects with Python | |
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| Globally Unique Identifiers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Building an Advanced Python Application | |
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| A Financial Modeling Toolkit in Python | |
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| Doubletalk | |
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| A Crash Course in Accounting | |
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| The Doubletalk Toolkit at Work | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Building a GUI with COM | |
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| Designing COM Servers | |
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| A VB Client | |
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| Writing a Delphi User Interface | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Adding a Macro Language | |
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| Dynamic Code Evaluation | |
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| Making an Application Extensible | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Integration with Excel | |
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| Client-Side COM and the Excel Object Model | |
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| Excel Concluded | |
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| Putting It All Together: Importing Financial Data | |
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| Server-Side COM Again: Excel as a GUI | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Printed Output | |
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| Business Requirements | |
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| Automating Word | |
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| Direct Output to the Printer with Windows | |
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| PIDDLE: A Python Graphics API | |
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| PostScript | |
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| Portable Document Format | |
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| Putting It Together: A High-Volume Invoicing System | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Distributing Our Application | |
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| DCOM | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Python on Windows Cookbook | |
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| Advanced Python and COM | |
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| Advanced COM | |
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| Python and COM | |
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| Using Automation Objects from Python | |
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| Using Other COM Interfaces | |
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| Error Handling | |
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| Implementing COM Objects in Python | |
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| Python and DCOM | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Databases | |
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| DAO, ADO, ODBC, OLEDB, and Other GBFLAs | |
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| Python's Database API | |
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| Getting at Your Data | |
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| A Note on Speed | |
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| Gadfly, the Pure Python Relational Database | |
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| Data Laundering with Python | |
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| A Three-Tier Architecture with Business Objects | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Working with Email | |
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| SMTP and POP3 | |
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| Microsoft Exchange/Outlook | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Using the Basic Internet Protocols | |
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| HTTP and HTML | |
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| FTP | |
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| NNTP | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Windows NT Administration | |
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| Working with Users and Groups | |
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| Server and Share Information | |
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| Rebooting a Machine | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Processes and Files | |
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| Portable File Manipulation | |
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| Native File Manipulation: The win32file Module | |
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| Pipes | |
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| Processes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Windows NT Services | |
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| Services in Brief | |
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| Controlling Services with Python | |
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| Reading the Event Log | |
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| Windows NT Performance Monitor Data | |
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| Writing Services in Python | |
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| Sample Service Written in Python | |
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| Writing to the Event Log | |
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| Providing Performance Monitor Information | |
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| A Final Service | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Communications | |
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| Serial Communications | |
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| Remote Access Services | |
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| Sockets | |
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| Other Communications Tools | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| GUI Development | |
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| Tkinter | |
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| PythonWin | |
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| wxPython | |
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| Active Scripting | |
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| Registering the Python Active Script Support | |
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| Python and Popular Microsoft Applications | |
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| Active Debugging | |
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| How Active Scripting Works | |
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| Active Script Hosting in Python | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Extending and Embedding with Visual C++ and Delphi | |
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| Python and Visual C++ | |
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| Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator | |
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| Python and Delphi | |
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| Dynamic DLL Access | |
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| References | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Key Python Modules and Functions | |
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| Win32 Extensions Reference | |
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| The Python Database API Version 2.0 | |
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| Threads | |
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| Index | |