Table of Contents¶

• What’s New in Python 2.7
  • 1. The Future for Python 2.x
  • 2. Changes to the Handling of Deprecation Warnings
  • 3. Python 3.1 Features
  • 4. PEP 372: Adding an Ordered Dictionary to collections
  • 5. PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
  • 6. PEP 389: The argparse Module for Parsing Command Lines
  • 7. PEP 391: Dictionary-Based Configuration For Logging
  • 8. PEP 3106: Dictionary Views
  • 9. PEP 3137: The memoryview Object
  • 10. Other Language Changes
  • 11. New and Improved Modules
  • 12. Build and C API Changes
  • 13. Other Changes and Fixes
  • 14. Porting to Python 2.7
  • 15. New Features Added to Python 2.7 Maintenance Releases
  • 16. Acknowledgements
• The Python Tutorial
  • 1. Whetting Your Appetite
  • 2. Using the Python Interpreter
  • 3. An Informal Introduction to Python
  • 4. More Control Flow Tools
  • 5. Data Structures
  • 6. Modules
  • 7. Input and Output
  • 8. Errors and Exceptions
  • 9. Classes
  • 10. Brief Tour of the Standard Library
  • 11. Brief Tour of the Standard Library – Part II
  • 12. What Now?
  • 13. Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
  • 14. Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations
  • 15. Appendix
• The Python Language Reference
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Lexical analysis
  • 3. Data model
  • 4. Execution model
  • 5. Expressions
  • 6. Simple statements
  • 7. Compound statements
  • 8. Top-level components
  • 9. Full Grammar specification
• Python Setup and Usage
  • 1. Command line and environment
  • 2. Using Python on Unix platforms
  • 3. Using Python on Windows
  • 4. Using Python on a Macintosh
• Python HOWTOs
  • 1. Porting Python 2 Code to Python 3
  • 2. Porting Extension Modules to Python 3
  • 3. Curses Programming with Python
  • 4. Descriptor HowTo Guide
  • 5. Idioms and Anti-Idioms in Python
  • 6. Functional Programming HOWTO
  • 7. Logging HOWTO
  • 8. Logging Cookbook
  • 9. Regular Expression HOWTO
  • 10. Socket Programming HOWTO
  • 11. Sorting HOW TO
  • 12. Unicode HOWTO
  • 13. HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using urllib2
  • 14. HOWTO Use Python in the web
  • 15. Argparse Tutorial
• Installing Python Modules
  • Key terms
  • Basic usage
  • How do I ...?
  • Common installation issues
• Distributing Python Modules
  • Key terms
  • Open source licensing and collaboration
  • Installing the tools
  • Reading the guide
  • How do I...?
• Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter
  • 1. Extending Python with C or C++
  • 2. Defining New Types
  • 3. Building C and C++ Extensions with distutils
  • 4. Building C and C++ Extensions on Windows
  • 5. Embedding Python in Another Application
• Python/C API Reference Manual
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Very High Level Layer
  • 3. Reference Counting
  • 4. Exception Handling
  • 5. Utilities
  • 6. Abstract Objects Layer
  • 7. Concrete Objects Layer
  • 8. Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
  • 9. Memory Management
  • 10. Object Implementation Support
• Glossary
  • symbols
  • a-e
  • f-h
  • i-k
  • l-n
  • o-z
• Python Frequently Asked Questions
  • 1. General Python FAQ
  • 2. Programming FAQ
  • 3. Design and History FAQ
  • 4. Library and Extension FAQ
  • 5. Extending/Embedding FAQ
  • 6. Python on Windows FAQ
  • 7. Graphic User Interface FAQ
  • 8. “Why is Python Installed on my Computer?” FAQ