Tutorials
Acquire
Revise
The Python Tutorial
1. Whetting Your Appetite
2. Using the Python Interpreter
2.1. Invoking the Interpreter
2.1.1. Argument Passing
2.1.2. Interactive Mode
2.2. The Interpreter and Its Environment
2.2.1. Error Handling
2.2.2. Executable Python Scripts
2.2.3. Source Code Encoding
2.2.4. The Interactive Startup File
2.2.5. The Customization Modules
3. An Informal Introduction to Python
3.1. Using Python as a Calculator
3.1.1. Numbers
3.1.2. Strings
3.1.3. Unicode Strings
3.1.4. Lists
3.2. First Steps Towards Programming
4. More Control Flow Tools
if
for
range()
break
pass
4.6. Defining Functions
4.7. More on Defining Functions
4.7.1. Default Argument Values
4.7.2. Keyword Arguments
4.7.3. Arbitrary Argument Lists
4.7.4. Unpacking Argument Lists
4.7.5. Lambda Forms
4.7.6. Documentation Strings
4.8. Intermezzo: Coding Style
5. Data Structures
5.1. More on Lists
5.1.1. Using Lists as Stacks
5.1.2. Using Lists as Queues
5.1.3. Functional Programming Tools
5.1.4. List Comprehensions
5.1.4.1. Nested List Comprehensions
del
5.3. Tuples and Sequences
5.4. Sets
5.5. Dictionaries
5.6. Looping Techniques
5.7. More on Conditions
5.8. Comparing Sequences and Other Types
6. Modules
6.1. More on Modules
6.1.1. Executing modules as scripts
6.1.2. The Module Search Path
6.1.3. Compiled Python files
6.2. Standard Modules
dir()
6.4. Packages
6.4.1. Importing * From a Package
6.4.2. Intra-package References
6.4.3. Packages in Multiple Directories
7. Input and Output
7.1. Fancier Output Formatting
7.1.1. Old string formatting
7.2. Reading and Writing Files
7.2.1. Methods of File Objects
pickle
8. Errors and Exceptions
8.1. Syntax Errors
8.2. Exceptions
8.3. Handling Exceptions
8.4. Raising Exceptions
8.5. User-defined Exceptions
8.6. Defining Clean-up Actions
8.7. Predefined Clean-up Actions
9. Classes
9.1. A Word About Names and Objects
9.2. Python Scopes and Namespaces
9.3. A First Look at Classes
9.3.1. Class Definition Syntax
9.3.2. Class Objects
9.3.3. Instance Objects
9.3.4. Method Objects
9.4. Random Remarks
9.5. Inheritance
9.5.1. Multiple Inheritance
9.6. Private Variables and Class-local References
9.7. Odds and Ends
9.8. Exceptions Are Classes Too
9.9. Iterators
9.10. Generators
9.11. Generator Expressions
10. Brief Tour of the Standard Library
10.1. Operating System Interface
10.2. File Wildcards
10.3. Command Line Arguments
10.4. Error Output Redirection and Program Termination
10.5. String Pattern Matching
10.6. Mathematics
10.7. Internet Access
10.8. Dates and Times
10.9. Data Compression
10.10. Performance Measurement
10.11. Quality Control
10.12. Batteries Included
11. Brief Tour of the Standard Library Part II
11.1. Output Formatting
11.2. Templating
11.3. Working with Binary Data Record Layouts
11.4. Multi-threading
11.5. Logging
11.6. Weak References
11.7. Tools for Working with Lists
11.8. Decimal Floating Point Arithmetic
12. What Now?
13. Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
13.1. Line Editing
13.2. History Substitution
13.3. Key Bindings
13.4. Alternatives to the Interactive Interpreter
14. Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations
14.1. Representation Error