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1 Introduction p. 1 Basic Programming Introduction p. 7 Introduction to Python p. 7 Why Use Python? p. 10 Main Technical Features p. 13 Python Distribution p. 16 Installing and Configuring Python p. 18 Python and Other Languages p. 22 Patches and Bugs List p. 25 PSA and the Python Consortium p. 26 Summary p. 28 Language Review p. 31 Language Review p. 31 The Shell Environment p. 32 Programs p. 35 Built-In Data Types p. 40 Operators p. 47 Expressions p. 49 Control Statements p. 59 Data Structures p. 62 Functions and Procedures p. 71 Modules and Packages p. 77 Input and Output p. 82 File Handling p. 86 Summary p. 89 Code Example p. 90 Python Libraries p. 97 Python Libraries p. 97 Python Services p. 99 The String Group p. 110 Miscellaneous p. 115 Generic Operational System p. 119 Optional Operational System p. 127 Debugger p. 130 Profiler p. 131 Internet Protocol and Support p. 131 Internet Data Handling p. 134 Restricted Execution p. 137 Multimedia p. 137 Cryptographic p. 139

2 UNIX Specific p. 140 SGI IRIX Specific p. 143 Sun OS Specific p. 145 MS Windows Specific p. 145 Macintosh Specific p. 145 Undocumented Modules p. 146 Summary p. 150 Exception Handling p. 153 Exception Handling p. 153 Standard Exceptions (Getting Help from Other Modules) p. 157 Raising Exceptions p. 159 Catching Exceptions p. 165 try/finally p. 167 Creating User-defined Exceptions p. 168 The Standard Exception Hierarchy p. 169 Summary p. 173 Code Examples p. 174 Object-Oriented Programming p. 179 Object-Oriented Programming p. 179 An Introduction to Python OOP p. 180 Python Classes and Instances p. 183 Methods Handling p. 190 Special Methods p. 192 Inheritance p. 198 Polymorphism p. 201 Encapsulation p. 204 Metaclasses p. 206 Summary p. 209 Code Examples p. 211 Advanced Programming Extending and Embedding Python p. 221 Extending and Embedding Python p. 221 The Python/C API p. 223 Extending p. 223 Compiling and Linking Extension Modules p. 237 SWIG--The Simple Wrapper Interface Generator p. 243 Other Wrappers p. 245 Embedding p. 246 Summary p. 251 Code Examples p. 252 Objects Interfacing and Distribution p. 259

3 Object Interfacing and Distribution p. 259 Interfacing Objects p. 260 Introduction to COM Objects p. 261 Implementing COM Objects in Python p. 266 Distributing Objects with Python p. 285 Summary p. 295 Code Examples p. 297 Working with Databases p. 305 Working with Databases p. 305 Flat Databases p. 306 DBM (Database Managers) Databases p. 309 Object Serialization and Persistent Storage p. 315 The ODBC Module p. 322 ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) p. 325 Using SQL p. 327 Python DB API p. 335 Summary p. 348 Other Advanced Topics p. 351 Other Advanced Topics p. 351 Manipulating Images p. 352 Working with Sounds p. 355 Restricted Execution Mode p. 360 Scientific Computing p. 363 Regular Expressions p. 369 Threads p. 376 Summary p. 382 Code Examples p. 383 Network Programming Basic Network Background p. 391 Networking p. 391 Networking Concepts p. 392 HTTP p. 405 Accessing URLs p. 414 FTP p. 417 SMTP/POP3/IMAP p. 418 Newsgroups--Telnet and Gopher p. 421 Summary p. 423 Web Development p. 427 Web Development p. 427 Configuring Web Servers for Python/CGI Scripts p. 428 Third-Party Internet Applications p. 433

4 Other Applications p. 439 Site Management Tools p. 442 Summary p. 447 Scripting Programming p. 451 Web Programming p. 451 An Introduction to CGI p. 452 The CGI Module p. 454 Creating, Installing, and Running Your Script p. 456 Python Active Scripting p. 481 Summary p. 488 Data Manipulation p. 491 Parsing and Manipulating Data p. 491 XML Processing p. 492 XML-RPC p. 510 XDR Data Exchange Format p. 512 Handling Other Markup Languages p. 517 MIME Parsing and Manipulation p. 530 Generic Conversion Functions p. 544 Summary p. 549 Graphical Interfaces Python and GUIs p. 555 Python GUI Toolkits p. 555 The Tkinter Module p. 557 Overview of Other GUI Modules p. 558 Designing a Good Interface p. 571 Summary p. 572 Tkinter p. 575 Introduction to Tcl/Tk p. 575 Tkinter p. 576 Geometry Management p. 580 Handling Tkinter Events p. 585 Tkinter Widgets p. 590 Designing Applications p. 624 PMW--Python Mega Widgets p. 630 Tkinter Resources p. 630 Summary p. 631 Developing with Python Development Environment p. 635 Building Python Applications p. 635 Development Strategy p. 636 Integrated Development Environments p. 647

5 IDLE p. 647 Pythonwin p. 661 Summary p. 671 Development Tools p. 673 The Development Process of Python Programs p. 673 Compiling Python p. 674 Editing Code p. 678 Emacs p. 679 Python Scripts p. 681 Generating an Executable Python Bytecode p. 685 Interpreter p. 686 Debugging the Application p. 689 Profiling Python p. 697 Distributing Python Applications p. 708 Summary p. 712 Python and Java JPython p. 717 Welcome to JPython p. 717 Java Integration p. 722 Downloading and Installing JPython p. 723 The Interpreter p. 727 The JPython Registry p. 729 Creating Graphical Interfaces p. 731 Embedding p. 732 jpythonc p. 734 Running JPython Applets p. 736 Summary p. 737 Appendixes Python/C API p. 741 Python/C API p. 741 The Very High Level Layer p. 751 Reference Counting p. 753 Exception Handling p. 754 Standard Exceptions p. 757 Utilities p. 759 Abstract Objects Layer p. 762 Concrete Objects Layer p. 771 Initialization, Finalization, and Threads p. 789 Memory Management p. 800 Defining New Object Types p. 804 Running Python on Specific Platforms p. 807

6 Python on Win32 Systems p. 807 Python on MacOS Systems p. 810 Python on UNIX Systems p. 814 Other Platforms p. 815 Python Copyright Notices p. 817 Python 2.0 License Information p. 817 Python's Copyright Notice (version 1.6) p. 819 Python's Copyright Notice (until version 1.5.2) p. 821 Copyright Notice of the profile and pstats Modules p. 822 Copyright Notice of JPython with OROMatcher p. 822 Copyright Notice of JPython without OROMatcher p. 824 Migrating to Python 2.0 p. 827 Python 1.6 or Python 2.0. Which One to Choose? p. 828 New Development Process p. 828 Enhancements p. 828 Expected Code Breaking p. 831 Index p. 833 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.

PYTHON TRAINING COURSE CONTENT

PYTHON TRAINING COURSE CONTENT SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION What s python? Why do people use python? Some quotable quotes A python history lesson Advocacy news What s python good for? What s python not good for? The compulsory features list