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Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional
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Release NotesBeginning 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, database
integration, network programming, and web services. Advanced topics, such as
extending Python and packaging/distributing Python applications, are also
covered.

Ten different projects illustrate the concepts introduced in the book. You will
learn how to create a P2P file-sharing application and a web-based bulletin
board, and how to remotely edit web-based documents and create games. Author
Magnus Lie Hetland is an authority on Python and previously authored Practical
Python. He also authored the popular online guide, Instant Python Hacking, on
which both books are based.

This book is very useful for novices and intermediate programmers, with limited
utility for experts. I started out as a relative novice, and found it to be very
useful. At the end of each chapter it reviews the functions introduced in the
chapter and makes a quick summary of what was covered in the chapter, making it
easier for someone with some previous programming experience and who has a vague
idea of python syntax to just skim off what they need for the first few
chapters, and makes a nice review for someone who was learning the content of
the chapter for the first time. The book progresses in a logical manner -
starting out with basic stuff like variables of various kinds input and output,
before going to more complex stuff. More or less, it covers all the OO,
networking and GUI stuff, and then a bit more, going over things like making
extensions to Python and web development. It contains a good amount of example
code, and various projects. After reading it, I feel more comfortable with the
language. I would recommend this book to any novice or intermediate programmer,
and if you can get your hands on a copy for cheap, it would also help a
competent programmer in other languages pick up python quickly. All in all, a
good book to have around.

Table of Contents
Ch. 1 Instant hacking : the basics 1
Ch. 2 Lists and tuples 31
Ch. 3 Working with strings 53
Ch. 4 Dictionaries : when indices won't do 67
Ch. 5 Conditionals, loops, and some other statements 81
Ch. 6 Abstraction 109
Ch. 7 More abstraction 139
Ch. 8 Exceptions 159
Ch. 9 Magic methods, properties, and iterators 173
Ch. 10 Batteries included 203
Ch. 11 Files and stuff 255
Ch. 12 Graphical user interfaces 269
Ch. 13 Database support 285
Ch. 14 Network programming 297
Ch. 15 Python and the Web 313
Ch. 16 Testing, 1-2-3 341
Ch. 17 Extending Python 357
Ch. 18 Packaging your programs 373
Ch. 19 Playful programming 381
Ch. 20 Project 1 : instant markup 391
Ch. 21 Project 2 : painting a pretty picture 411
Ch. 22 Project 3 : XML for all occasions 421
Ch. 23 Project 4 : in the news 439
Ch. 24 Project 5 : a virtual tea party 455
Ch. 25 Project 6 : remote editing with CGI 473
Ch. 26 Project 7 : your own bulletin board 483
Ch. 27 Project 8 : file sharing with XML-RPC 499
Ch. 28 Project 9 : file sharing II - now with GUI! 517
Ch. 29 Project 10 : do-it-yourself arcade game 527

Product Details

* ISBN: 159059519X
* ISBN-13: 9781590595190
* Format: Paperback, 640pp
* Publisher: Apress L. P.
* Pub. Date: September 2005
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