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1 dive into PythonPython from novice to proMark PilgrimDive into Python : Python from novice to proby Mark PilgrimPublished 20 May 2004 Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Mark Pilgrim book lives at If you're reading it somewhere else, you may not have thelatest is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,Version or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, andno Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in Appendix G, GNU Free Documentation example programs in this book are free software; you can redistribute and/or modify them under the terms of the Python licenseas published by the Python Software Foundation. A copy of the license is included in Appendix H, Python of Contents1. Chapter 1 Which Python is right for you?.. 1 Python on 1 Python on Mac OS 3 Python on Mac OS 4 Python on RedHat 5 Python on Debian 6 Python Installation from 7 The Interactive 92.

2 Chapter 10 Diving 10 Declaring 11 How Python 's Datatypes Compare to Other Programming 11 Documenting 12 Everything Is an 13 The Import Search 13 What's an Object?.. 14 Indenting 15 Testing 163. Chapter 18 Introducing 18 Defining 18 Modifying 19 Deleting Items From 20 Introducing 21 Defining 21 Adding Elements to 23 Searching 25 Deleting List 26 Using List 27 Introducing 27 Declaring 29 Referencing 30 Assigning Multiple Values at 30 Formatting 31 Mapping 33 Joining Lists and Splitting 35 Historical Note on String 364. Chapter 38 Diving 38 Using Optional and Named 39 Using type, str, dir, and Other Built-In 40 The type 40 The str 41 Built-In 43 Getting Object References With 44getattr with 45getattr As a 46 Filtering 47iiiThe Peculiar Nature of and and 49 Using the and-or 50 Using lambda 51 Real-World lambda 51 Putting It All 555. Chapter 57 Diving 57 Importing Modules Using from module 60 Defining 61 Initializing and Coding 63 Knowing When to Use self and 64 Instantiating 65 Garbage 65 Exploring UserDict: A Wrapper 66 Special Class 69 Getting and Setting 70 Advanced Special Class 72 Introducing Class 74 Private 776.

3 Chapter 79 Handling 79 Using Exceptions For Other 80 Working with File 82 Reading 82 Closing 83 Handling I/O 84 Writing to 85 Iterating with for 86 Using 89 Working with 92 Putting It All 997. Chapter 101 Diving 101 Case Study: Street 101 Case Study: Roman 103 Checking for 104 Checking for 105 Using the {n,m} 107 Checking for Tens and 109 Verbose Regular 110 Case study: Parsing Phone 1168. Chapter 118 Diving 118 Introducing .. 124 Extracting data from HTML 127 Introducing .. 129locals and 132 Dictionary-based string 136 Quoting attribute 138 Introducing .. 139ivDive into PythonPutting it all 1449. Chapter 146 Diving 154 Parsing 159 Searching for 164 Accessing element 16710. Chapter 168 Abstracting input 168 Standard input, output, and 173 Caching node 177 Finding direct children of a 178 Creating separate handlers by node 179 Handling command-line 181 Putting it all 18711.

4 Chapter 188 Diving 188 How not to fetch data over 191 Features of 192 Last- 192 193 Debugging HTTP web 193 Setting the 195 Handling Last-Modified and 196 Handling 199 Handling compressed 205 Putting it all 21012. Chapter 211 Diving 211 Installing the SOAP 212 Installing 213 Installing 213 Installing SOAPpy .. 214 First Steps with 214 Debugging SOAP Web 215 Introducing 217 Introspecting SOAP Web Services with 218 Searching 222 Troubleshooting SOAP Web 23013. Chapter 231 Introduction to Roman 231 Diving 232 Introducing .. 232 Testing for 236 Testing for 238vDive into PythonTesting for 24014. Chapter , stage , stage , stage , stage , stage 25915. Chapter 263 Handling 263 Handling changing 28116. Chapter 283 Diving 283 Finding the 284 Filtering lists 287 Mapping lists 289 Data-centric 290 Dynamically importing 291 Putting it all 29617.

5 Chapter 297 Diving , stage , stage , stage , stage , stage , stage 31118. Chapter 313 Diving 313 Using the timeit 316 Optimizing Regular 318 Optimizing Dictionary 322 Optimizing List 325 Optimizing String 330A. Further 331B. A 5-minute 332C. Tips and 333D. List of 334E. Revision 335F. About the 336G. GNU Free Documentation 3370. 3371. Applicability and 3372. Verbatim 3383. Copying in 3384. 3395. Combining 3406. Collections of 3407. Aggregation with independent 340viDive into Python8. 3419. 34110. Future revisions of this 34111. How to use this License for your 341H. Python 343A. History of the 343B. Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using PSF license BeOpen Python open source license agreement version CNRI open source GPL-compatible license CWI permissions statement and 346viiDive into PythonList of Two versions of Installing on RedHat Linux Installing on Debian Installing from First Steps in the Interactive.

6 Defining the buildConnectionString Function's doc Accessing the buildConnectionString Function's doc Import Search Indenting the buildConnectionString if Defining a Modifying a Dictionary Keys Are Case-Sensitive .. Mixing Datatypes in a Deleting Items from a Defining a Negative List Slicing a Slicing Adding Elements to a The Difference between extend and Searching a Removing Elements from a List Defining a Tuples Have No Defining the myParams Referencing an Unbound Assigning multiple values at Assigning Consecutive Introducing String String Formatting vs. Formatting Introducing List The keys, values, and items List Comprehensions in buildConnectionString, Step by Output of .. Splitting a .. Sample Usage of .. Advanced Usage of .. Valid Calls of Introducing Introducing Introducing Introducing Built-in Attributes and Introducing The getattr Function in.

7 Creating a Dispatcher with getattr Default Introducing List Introducing Introducing Introducing the and-or When the and-or Trick Using the and-or Trick Introducing lambda split With No Getting a doc string Why Use str on a doc string?.. Introducing Printing a .. import module vs. from module The Simplest Python Defining the FileInfo Initializing the FileInfo Coding the FileInfo Creating a FileInfo Trying to Implement a Memory Defining the UserDict UserDict Normal Inheriting Directly from Built-In Datatype The __getitem__ Special The __setitem__ Special Overriding __setitem__ in Setting an MP3 FileInfo's More Special Methods in Introducing Class Modifying Class Trying to Call a Private Opening a Non-Existent Supporting Platform-Specific Opening a Reading a Closing a File Objects in Writing to Introducing the for Simple Iterating Through a for Loop in Introducing Using The __module__ Class in.

8 Constructing Splitting Listing Listing Directories in .. Listing Directories with Matching at the End of a 102ixDive into Matching Whole Checking for Checking for The Old Way: Every Character The New Way: From n o Checking for Validating Roman Numerals with {n,m}.. Regular Expressions with Inline Finding Finding the Handling Different Handling Numbers Without Handling Leading Phone Number, Wherever I May Find Ye .. Parsing Phone Numbers (Final Version).. Output of .. Sample test of .. Introducing Introducing .. Using .. Introducing BaseHTMLP rocessor Introducing Introducing locals is read-only, globals is Introducing dictionary-based string Dictionary-based string formatting in .. More dictionary-based string Quoting attribute Handling specific Overriding the handle_data The translate function, part The translate function, part 2: curiouser and The translate function, part.

9 Sample output of .. Simpler output from .. Loading an XML document (a sneak peek).. File layout of a Packages are modules, Loading an XML document (for real this time).. Getting child toxml works on any Child nodes can be Drilling down all the way to Introducing Storing non-ASCII .. Effects of setting the default Specifying encoding in .py 162xDive into Parsing Introducing Every element is Searching is actually recursive .. Accessing element Accessing individual Parsing XML from a Parsing XML from a Parsing XML from a string (the easy but inflexible way).. Introducing Parsing XML from a string (the file-like object way).. Using openAnything in .. Introducing stdout and Redirecting Redirecting error Printing to Chaining Reading from standard input in .. Using the ref element Finding direct child Class names of parsed XML parse, a generic XML node Functions called by the parse Introducing The contents of Introducing Handling command-line arguments in.

10 Downloading a feed the quick-and-dirty Debugging Introducing Adding headers with the Testing Defining URL Using custom URL Supporting Accessing web services without a redirect Defining the redirect Using the redirect handler to detect permanent Using the redirect handler to detect temporary Telling the server you would like compressed Decompressing the Decompressing the data directly from the The openanything The fetch Using .. Sample Usage of .. Verifying PyXML Verifying fpconst 214xiDive into Verifying SOAPpy Getting the Current Debugging SOAP Web Discovering The Available Discovering A Method's Discovering A Method's Return Calling A Web Service Through A WSDL Introspecting Google Web Searching Accessing Secondary Information From Calling a Method With an Incorrectly Configured Calling a Method With the Wrong Calling a Method and Expecting the Wrong Number of Return Calling a Method With An Application-Specific.