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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Installing Python | |
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| Which Python Is Right for You? | |
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| Python on Windows | |
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| Python on Mac OS X | |
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| Python on Mac OS 9 | |
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| Python on RedHat Linux | |
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| Python on Debian GNU/Linux | |
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| Python Installation from Source | |
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| The Interactive Shell | |
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| Summary | |
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| Your First Python Program | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Declaring Functions | |
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| Documenting Functions | |
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| Everything Is an Object | |
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| Indenting Code | |
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| Testing Modules: The if name Trick | |
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| Summary | |
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| Native Datatypes | |
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| Introducing Dictionaries | |
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| Introducing Lists | |
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| Introducing Tuples | |
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| Declaring Variables | |
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| Formatting Strings | |
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| Mapping Lists | |
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| Joining Lists and Splitting Strings | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Power of Introspection | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Using Optional and Named Arguments | |
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| Using type, str, dir, and Other Built-in Functions | |
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| Getting Object References with getattr | |
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| Filtering Lists | |
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| Understanding the Peculiar Nature of and and or | |
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| Using lambda Functions | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Summary | |
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| Objects and Object-Orientation | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Importing Modules Using from module import | |
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| Defining Classes | |
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| Instantiating Classes | |
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| Exploring UserDict: A Wrapper Class | |
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| Using Special Class Methods | |
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| Introducing Class Attributes | |
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| Using Private Functions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exceptions and File Handling | |
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| Handling Exceptions | |
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| Working with File Objects | |
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| Iterating with for Loops | |
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| Using sys.modules | |
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| Working with Directories | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Summary | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Case Study: Street Addresses | |
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| Case Study: Roman Numerals | |
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| Verbose Regular Expressions | |
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| Case Study: Parsing Phone Numbers | |
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| Summary | |
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| HTML Processing | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Introducing Python's sgmllib.py | |
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| Extracting Data from HTML Documents | |
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| Understanding locals() and globals() | |
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| Using Dictionary-based String Formatting | |
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| Quoting Attribute Values | |
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| Parsing HTML One Tag at a Time | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Summary | |
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| XML Processing | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Importing Python Packages | |
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| Parsing XML | |
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| Dealing with Unicode | |
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| Searching for XML Elements | |
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| Accessing XML Element Attributes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Scripts and Streams | |
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| Abstracting Input Sources | |
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| Using Standard Input, Output, and Error | |
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| Introducing Some XML Processing Techniques | |
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| Handling Command-Line Arguments | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Summary | |
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| HTTP Web Services | |
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| Diving In | |
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| How Not to Fetch Data Over HTTP | |
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| Supporting HTTP Features | |
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| Debugging HTTP Web Services | |
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| Setting the User-Agent | |
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| Handling Last-Modified and ETag | |
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| Handling Redirects | |
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| Handling Compressed Data | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Summary | |
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| SOAP Web Services | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Installing the SOAP Libraries | |
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| Taking Your First Steps with SOAP | |
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| Introducing WSDL | |
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| Searching Google | |
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| Troubleshooting SOAP Web Services | |
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| Summary | |
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| Unit Testing | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Introducing the Test Suite | |
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| Constructing Test Cases | |
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| Summary | |
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| Test-First Programming | |
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| Diving In (Stage 1) | |
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| Converting Roman Numerals | |
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| Converting Roman Numerals, Stage 3 | |
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| Converting Roman Numerals, Stage 4 | |
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| Converting Roman Numerals, Stage 5 | |
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| Summary | |
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| Refactoring | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Handling Changing Requirements | |
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| Refactoring for Performance | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Summary | |
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| Functional Programming | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Finding the Path | |
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| Filtering Lists Revisited | |
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| Mapping Lists Revisited | |
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| Data-centric Programming | |
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| Dynamically Importing Modules | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dynamic Functions | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Pluralizing Nouns | |
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| Pluralizing Nouns, Stage 2 | |
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| Pluralizing Nouns, Stage 3 | |
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| Pluralizing Nouns, Stage 4 | |
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| Pluralizing Nouns, Stage 5 | |
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| Pluralizing Nouns, Stage 6 | |
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| Summary | |
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| Performance Tuning | |
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| Diving In | |
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| Using the timeit Module | |
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| Optimizing Regular Expressions | |
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| Optimizing Dictionary Lookups | |
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| Optimizing List Operations | |
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| Optimizing String Manipulation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Python License | |
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| History of the Software | |
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| Terms and Conditions for Accessing or Otherwise Using Python | |
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| GNU Free Documentation License | |
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| Preamble | |
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| Applicability and Definitions | |
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| Verbatim Copying | |
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| Copying in Quantity | |
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| Modifications | |
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| Combining Documents | |
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| Collections of Documents | |
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| Aggregation with Independent Works | |
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| Translation | |
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| Termination | |
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| Future Revisions of This License | |
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| Addendum: How to Use This License for Your Documents | |
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| Index | |