Dive into Python

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Introduction -- 1. Installing Python -- Which Python is right for you? -- Python on Windows -- Python on Mac OS X -- Python on Mac OS 9 -- Python on RedHat Linux -- Python on Debian GNU/Linux -- Python Installation from Source -- The Interactive Shell -- Summary -- 2. Your First Python Program -- Diving in -- Declaring Functions -- Everything Is an Object -- Indenting Code -- Testing Modules: The if name Trick -- 3. Native Datatypes -- Introducing Dictionaries -- Introducing Lists -- Introducing Tuples -- Declaring variables -- Formatting Strings -- Mapping Lists -- Joining Lists and Splitting Strings -- Summary -- 4. The Power Of Introspection -- Diving In -- Using Optional and Named Arguments -- Using type, str, dir, and Other Built-In Functions -- Getting Object References With getattr -- Filtering Lists -- Understanding the Peculiar Nature of and and or -- Using lambda Functions -- Putting It All Together -- Summary -- 5. Objects and Object-Orientation -- Diving In -- Importing Modules Using from module import -- Defining Classes -- Instantiating Classes -- Exploring UserDict: A Wrapper Class -- Using Special Class Methods -- Introducing Class Attributes -- Using Private Functions -- Summary -- 6. Exceptions and File Handling -- Handling Exceptions -- Working with File Objects -- Iterating with for Loops -- Using sys.modules -- Putting It All Together -- Summary -- 7. Regular Expressions -- Diving In -- Case Study: Street Addresses -- Case Study: Roman Numerals -- Verbose Regular Expressions -- Case study: Parsing Phone Numbers -- Summary -- 8. HTML Processing -- Diving in -- Introducing Python's sgmllib.py -- Extracting data from HTML documents -- Understanding locals and globals -- Using Dictionary-based string formatting -- Quoting attribute values -- Parsing HTML One Tag at a Time -- Putting it all together -- Summary -- 9. XML Processing -- Diving in -- Importing Python Packages -- Parsing XML -- Dealing with Unicode -- Searching for XML elements -- Accessing XML element attributes -- Summary -- 10. Scripts and Streams -- Abstracting input sources -- Standard input, output, and error -- Introducing some XML processing techniques -- Handling command-line arguments -- Putting it all together -- Summary -- 11. HTTP Web Services -- Diving in -- How not to fetch data over HTTP -- Supporting HTTP features -- Debugging HTTP Web Services -- Setting the User-Agent -- Handling Last-Modified and Etag -- Handling redirects -- Handling compressed data -- Putting it all together -- Summary -- 12. SOAP Web Services -- Diving In -- Installing the SOAP Libraries -- Taking Your First Steps with SOAP -- Introducing WSDL -- Searching Google -- Troubleshooting SOAP Web Services -- Summary -- 13. Unit Testing -- Diving in -- Introducing the test suit -- Constructing testing cases -- Summary -- 14. Test-First Programming -- Diving in (Stage 1) -- Converting Roman Numerals, stage 2 -- Converting Roman Numerals, stage 3 -- Converting Roman Numerals, stage 4 -- Converting Roman Numerals, stage 5 -- Summary -- 15. Refactoring -- Diving In -- Handling changing requirements -- Refactoring for performance -- Postscript -- Summary -- 16. Functional Programming -- Diving in -- Finding the path -- Filtering lists revisited -- Mapping lists revisited -- Data-centric programming -- Dynamically importing modules -- Putting it all together -- Summary -- 17. Dynamic functions -- Diving in -- Pluralizing Nouns, stage 1 -- Pluralizing Nouns, stage 2 -- Pluralizing Nouns, stage 3 -- Pluralizing Nouns, stage 4 -- Pluralizing Nouns, stage 5 -- Pluralizing Nouns, stage 6 -- Summary -- 18. Performance Tuning -- Diving in -- Using the timeit Module -- Optimizing Regular Expressions -- Optimizing Dictionary Lookups -- Optimizing List Operations -- Optimizing String Manipulation -- Summary -- Appendix A. Python License -- Appendiz B. GNU Free Documentation License -- Summary