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Sams Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours

by: Laningham, Ivan

Sams Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours

by: Laningham, Ivan

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9780672317354
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Copyright: 04/01/2000
Publisher: Pearson P T R
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Sams Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours presents 24 hands-on, one-hour lessons that guide you through all the steps needed to learn the Python programming language. The lessons begin with basic Python syntax and language features, and move up through object oriented design and programming. The book ends with a series of chapters covering GUI programming (using Tkinter), Python as a system administration tool, and Python as a programming language for CGI applications.

Introduction	p. 1
Python Mind, Beginner's Mind	p. 5
What Is Python?	p. 7
Why Program? Why Program in Python?	p. 7
The History of Python	p. 10
Goto Considered Harmful	p. 12
What Python Is and Is Not Good At	p. 14
The Python Interpreter	p. 19
The Interpreter: A Minimalist Guide	p. 19
Interactivity and Environment	p. 22
Running Scripts	p. 24
Hello, Python!	p. 25
Basic Arithmetic with Python	p. 31
Addition and Subtraction	p. 32
Multiplication, Division, and Modulo	p. 36
Rounding, floor(), and ceil()	p. 39
Exponentiation	p. 41
Parenthesization	p. 43
"Gotchas" and Other Miscellaneous Topics	p. 44
Variables and Control Flow	p. 51
Variables	p. 51
If, elif, and else	p. 54
For and range()	p. 57
While	p. 60
Break, continue, and pass	p. 62
A Complete Program	p. 63
Basic Data Types I: The Numeric Data Types	p. 69
Data Types	p. 70
Numeric Types	p. 70
Integer	p. 71
Long Integer	p. 73
Floating point	p. 75
Complex	p. 76
Basic Data Types II: The Sequence and Dictionary Data Types	p. 83
Sequence Data Types	p. 84
Strings	p. 84
Tuples	p. 96
Lists	p. 99
Dictionaries	p. 102
Arrays	p. 106
Functions and Modules	p. 111
What Do Functions Do?	p. 112
Modules	p. 117
Useful Miscellany	p. 125
Three Functions and a Statement	p. 126
Map	p. 126
Reduce	p. 128
Filter	p. 129
Lambda	p. 130
Printing and Formatting	p. 131
File Objects	p. 135
Try and Except	p. 138
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear	p. 145
Objects at Rest	p. 147
Everything Is an Object	p. 148
Variables Are References to Objects	p. 149
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 152
Defining Objects	p. 161
First Class	p. 162
Modifying the Class	p. 164
A Class Divided	p. 167
Changing the Name of Arkansas	p. 170
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts	p. 175
Identity	p. 176
Encapsulation	p. 177
Namespaces and Scope	p. 181
More OOP Concepts	p. 189
Data Hiding with "Private" Variables	p. 189
Polymorphism	p. 193
Multiple Inheritance	p. 194
Special Class Methods in Python	p. 203
Operators and Operator Overloading	p. 203
Using Special Methods	p. 206
The Special Methods	p. 210
Numeric Special Class Methods	p. 210
Sequence and Mapping Special Class Methods	p. 214
Access and Special Class Methods	p. 216
The Laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein	p. 223
Making Reusable Components	p. 224
The Laboratory, Part II	p. 239
Making Reusable Components, Continued	p. 239
Documenting Your Components	p. 244
Testing Your Components	p. 247
Finding Components Built by Others	p. 248
Objects in Motion	p. 251
A Complete Application	p. 252
Shelve	p. 252
Input Record Format	p. 253
Classes	p. 254
Glue	p. 259
Command-Line Interface	p. 276
Introducing the Python GUI	p. 283
Introducing the Python GUI	p. 285
The GUI Programming Model	p. 286
Events	p. 289
Callbacks	p. 291
Tk Widgets I	p. 297
Windows and Widgets	p. 297
The Button Widget	p. 299
The Canvas Widget	p. 300
The Checkbutton Widget	p. 301
The Entry Widget	p. 301
The Frame Widget	p. 302
The Label Widget	p. 303
The Listbox Widget	p. 304
Tkinter Variables	p. 305
The Menu and Menubutton Widgets	p. 306
The MessageBox Widgets	p. 309
The Info MessageBox	p. 309
The Warning MessageBox	p. 310
The Error MessageBox	p. 311
The Yesno MessageBox	p. 312
The Okcancel MessageBox	p. 313
The Retrycancel MessageBox	p. 314
The Question MessageBox	p. 314
Tk Widgets II	p. 319
The Radio Button Widget	p. 319
The Scale Widget	p. 321
The Text, Scrollbar, and ScrolledText Widgets	p. 324
Scrollbars	p. 325
The Toplevel Widget	p. 328
Tk Graphics I	p. 335
New Menus	p. 335
Scrolling a Listbox Widget	p. 342
The Python Imaging Library	p. 344
The Canvas Widget	p. 349
The Rectangle Object	p. 350
The Line Object	p. 351
The Arc Object	p. 351
The Oval Object	p. 352
The Polygon Object	p. 352
The Bitmap Object	p. 353
The Image Object	p. 354
The CanvasText Object	p. 354
The Window Object	p. 355
Tk Graphics II	p. 359
Color	p. 359
Animation	p. 372
Tk Graphics III	p. 381
More Animation	p. 381
The Geometry Managers	p. 399
Place	p. 399
Pack	p. 401
Grid	p. 402
The Mandelbrot Set	p. 409
The Mandelbrot Set	p. 409
Mathematics	p. 411
The Mandelbrot Program	p. 415
Julia Sets	p. 433
Miscellany	p. 445
CGI	p. 445
Debugging	p. 451
Right Practice	p. 453
Right Attitude	p. 454
Right Understanding	p. 455
Appendixes	p. 459
Selected Bibliography	p. 461
Editors for Python	p. 465
vi and vim	p. 465
Emacs	p. 466
Xemacs	p. 467
Alpha	p. 467
IDLE	p. 468
Reserved Words and Identifiers in Python	p. 469
Reserved Words	p. 469
Reserved Identifiers	p. 472
Built-in Names	p. 472
Special Class Methods in Python	p. 475
Other Python Resources	p. 483
Index	p. 485
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