Learning Python / Mark Lutz

Preface -- I. Getting started: 1. A Python Q&A session -- 2. How Python runs programs -- 3. How you run programs -- II. Types and operations: 4. Introducing Python object types -- 5. Numeric types -- 6. The dynamic typing interlude -- 7. String fundamentals -- 8. Lists and dictionaries -- 9. Tuples, files, and everything else -- III. Statements and syntax: 10. Introducing Python statements -- 11. Assignments, expressions, and prints -- 12. if Tests and syntax rules -- 13. while and for Loops -- 14. Iterations and comprehensions -- 15. The documentation interlude -- IV. Functions and generators: 16. Function basics -- 17. Scopes -- 18. Arguments -- 19. Advanced function topics -- 20. Comprehensions and generations -- 21. The benchmarking interlude -- V. Modules and packages: 22. Modules: The Big Picture -- 23. Module coding basics -- 24. Module packages -- 25. Advanced module topics -- VI. Classes and OOP: 26. OOP: The big picture -- 27. Class coding basics -- 28. A more realistic example -- 29. Class coding details -- 30. Operator overloading -- 31. Designing with classes -- 32. Advanced class topics -- VII. Exceptions and tools: 33. Exception basics -- 34. Exception coding details -- 35. Exception objects -- 36. Designing with exceptions -- VIII. Advanced topics: 37. Unicode and byte strings -- 38. Managed attributes -- 39. Decorators -- 40. Metaclasses -- 41. All good things -- IX. Appendixes -- Index