Beginning Python From Novice to Professional /

• Main Author: Hetland, Magnus Lie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2005.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional is the most comprehensive book on the Python ever written. Based on Practical Python, this newly-revised book is both an introduction and practical reference for a swath of Python-related programming topics, including addressing language internals, datab...

Table of Contents:

• Instant Hacking: The Basics
• Lists and Tuples
• Working with Strings
• Dictionaries: When Indices Won’t Do
• Conditionals, Loops, and Some Other Statements
• Abstraction
• More Abstraction
• Exceptions
• Magic Methods, Properties, and Iterators
• Batteries Included
• Files and Stuff
• Graphical User Interfaces
• Database Support
• Network Programming
• Python and the Web
• Testing, 1–2–3
• Extending Python
• Packaging Your Programs
• Playful Programming
• Project 1: Instant Markup
• Project 2: Painting a Pretty Picture
• Project 3: XML for All Occasions
• Project 4: In the News
• Project 5: A Virtual Tea Party
• Project 6: Remote Editing with CGI
• Project 7: Your Own Bulletin Board
• Project 8: File Sharing with XML–RPC
• Project 9: File Sharing II—Now with GUI!
• Project 10: Do–It–Yourself Arcade Game.