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Python Tutorial

Guido van Rossum

Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191, USA
E-mail: guido@python.org

March 22, 2000
Release 1.5.2

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• Front Matter
• Contents
• 1. Whetting Your Appetite
  • 1.1 Where From Here
• 2. Using the Python Interpreter
  • 2.1 Invoking the Interpreter
  • 2.2 The Interpreter and Its Environment
• 3. An Informal Introduction to Python
  • 3.1 Using Python as a Calculator
  • 3.2 First Steps Towards Programming
• 4. More Control Flow Tools
  • 4.1 if Statements
  • 4.2 for Statements
  • 4.3 The range() Function
  • 4.4 break and continue Statements, and else Clauses on Loops
  • 4.5 pass Statements
  • 4.6 Defining Functions
  • 4.7 More on Defining Functions
• 5. Data Structures
  • 5.1 More on Lists
  • 5.2 The del statement
  • 5.3 Tuples and Sequences
  • 5.4 Dictionaries
  • 5.5 More on Conditions
  • 5.6 Comparing Sequences and Other Types
• 6. Modules
  • 6.1 More on Modules
  • 6.2 Standard Modules
  • 6.3 The dir() Function
  • 6.4 Packages
• 7. Input and Output
  • 7.1 Fancier Output Formatting
  • 7.2 Reading and Writing Files
• 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
• 9. Classes
  • 9.1 A Word About Terminology
  • 9.2 Python Scopes and Name Spaces
  • 9.3 A First Look at Classes
  • 9.4 Random Remarks
  • 9.5 Inheritance
  • 9.6 Private Variables
  • 9.7 Odds and Ends
• 10. What Now?
• A. Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
  • A1. Line Editing
  • A2. History Substitution
  • A3. Key Bindings
  • A4. Commentary
• About this document ...

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