The Quick Python Book, Second Edition (Unabridged‪)‬

This revision of Manning's popular The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp introduction to the elegant Python programming language and its famously easy-to-read syntax. Written for programmers new to Python, this edition covers features common to other languages concisely, while introducing Python's comprehensive standard functions library and unique features in detail. After exploring Python's syntax, control flow, and basic data structures, the book shows how to create, test, and deploy full applications and larger code libraries. It addresses established Python features as well as the advanced object-oriented options available in Python 3. Along the way, you'll survey the current Python development landscape, including GUI programming, testing, database access, and web frameworks.  What's inside:

 


Concepts and Python 3 features
Regular expressions and testing
Python tools
All the Python you need - nothing you don't  


Table of Contents 

 


Part 1. Starting out 
Ch 1. About Python 
Ch 2. Getting started 
Ch 3. The Quick Python overview 
Part 2. The essentials 
Ch 4. The absolute basics 
Ch 5. Lists, tuples, and sets 
Ch 6. Strings 
Ch 7. Dictionaries 
Ch 8. Control flow 
Ch 9. Functions 
Ch 10. Modules and scoping rules 
Ch 11. Python programs 
Ch 12. Using the filesystem 
Ch 13. Reading and writing files 
Ch 14. Exceptions 
Ch 15. Classes and object-oriented programming 
Ch 16. Graphical user interfaces 
Part 3. Advanced language features 
Ch 17. Regular expressions 
Ch 18. Packages 
Ch 19. Data types as objects 
Ch 20. Advanced object-oriented features 
Part 4. Where can you go from here? 
Ch 21. Testing your code made easy(-er) 
Ch 22. Moving from Python 2 to Python 3 
Ch 23. Using Python libraries 
Ch 24. Network, web, and database programming