Introduction to Python Programming Course Notes

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Introduction to Python ProgrammingCourse NotesPhil SpectorDepartment of Statistics, University of California BerkeleyMarch 16, 20052Contents1 What is Python ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The very Basics of Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Invoking Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basic Principles of Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basic Core Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Object Oriented Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Namespaces and Variable Scoping . . . . . . . . . . . . Exception Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 String String Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Characters and Raw Strings.

entirely in Java, further enhancing python’s position as an excellent solution for internet-based problems. Python was developed in the early 1990’s by Guido van Rossum, then at CWI in Amsterdam, and currently at CNRI in Virginia. In some ways, python grew out of a project to design a computer language which would be

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