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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unicode Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . String Operations.

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