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1 Tutorial
2 Contents=C_00006
2 Whetting Your Appetite
3 Where From Here=C_00010
2 Using the Python Interpreter
3 Invoking the Interpreter
4 Argument Passing=C_00016
4 Interactive Mode=C_00018
3 The Interpreter and its Environment
4 Error Handling=C_00022
4 The Module Search Path=C_00024
4 ``Compiled'' Python files=C_00026
4 Executable Python scripts=C_00028
4 The Interactive Startup File=C_00030
3 Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
4 Line Editing=C_00034
4 History Substitution=C_00036
4 Key Bindings=C_00038
4 Commentary=C_00040
2 An Informal Introduction to Python
3 Using Python as a Calculator
4 Numbers=C_00046
4 Strings=C_00048
4 Lists=C_00050
3 First Steps Towards Programming=C_00052
2 More Control Flow Tools
3 If Statements=C_00056
3 For Statements=C_00058
3 The range() Function=C_00060
3 Break and Continue Statements, and Else Clauses on Loops=C_00062
3 Pass Statements=C_00064
3 Defining Functions=C_00066
2 Odds and Ends
3 More on Lists=C_00070
3 The del statement=C_00072
3 Tuples and Sequences=C_00074
3 Dictionaries=C_00076
3 More on Conditions=C_00078
3 Comparing Sequences and Other Types=C_00080
2 Modules
3 More on Modules=C_00084
3 Standard Modules=C_00086
3 The dir() function=C_00088
2 Output Formatting=C_00090
2 Errors and Exceptions
3 Syntax Errors=C_00094
3 Exceptions=C_00096
3 Handling Exceptions=C_00098
3 Raising Exceptions=C_00100
3 User-defined Exceptions=C_00102
3 Defining Clean-up Actions=C_00104
2 Classes
3 A word about terminology=C_00108
3 Python scopes and name spaces=C_00110
3 A first look at classes
4 Class definition syntax=C_00114
4 Class objects=C_00116
4 Instance objects=C_00118
4 Method objects=C_00120
3 Random remarks=C_00122
3 Inheritance
4 Multiple inheritance=C_00126
3 Odds and ends=C_00128
2 Recent Additions
3 The Last Printed Expression=C_00132
3 String Literals
4 Double Quotes=C_00136
4 Continuation Of String Literals=C_00138
4 Triple-quoted strings=C_00140
4 String Literal Juxtaposition=C_00142
3 The Formatting Operator
4 Basic Usage=C_00146
4 Referencing Variables By Name=C_00148
3 Optional Function Arguments
4 Default Argument Values=C_00152
4 Arbitrary Argument Lists=C_00154
3 Lambda And Functional Programming Tools
4 Lambda Forms=C_00158
4 Map, Reduce and Filter
5 Map.=C_00162
5 Filter.=C_00164
5 Reduce.=C_00166
3 Continuation Lines Without Backslashes=C_00168
3 Regular Expressions=C_00170
3 Generalized Dictionaries=C_00172
3 Miscellaneous New Built-in Functions=C_00174
3 Else Clause For Try Statement=C_00176
3 New Class Features in Release 1.1
4 New Operator Overloading=C_00180
4 Trapping Attribute Access=C_00182
4 Calling a Class Instance=C_00184
2 New in Release 1.2
3 New Class Features=C_00188
3 Unix Signal Handling=C_00190
3 Exceptions Can Be Classes=C_00192
3 Object Persistency and Object Copying
4 Persistent Objects=C_00196
4 Copying Objects=C_00198
3 Documentation Strings=C_00200
3 Customizing Import and Built-Ins=C_00202
3 Python and the World-Wide Web=C_00204
3 Miscellaneous=C_00206
2 New in Release 1.3
3 Keyword Arguments=C_00210
3 Changes to the WWW and Internet tools=C_00212
3 Other Language Changes=C_00214
3 Changes to Built-in Operations=C_00216
3 Library Changes=C_00218
3 Other Changes=C_00220
2 About this document ...=C_00222
