Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers.Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers. Whether you’re an experienced programmer looking to get into Python or grizzled Python veteran who remembers the days when you had to import the string module, Dive Into Python is your ‘desert island’ Python book. If you’ve never programmed before, Python is an excellent language to learn modern programming techniques.

But this book should not be your starting point. Get “How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python” by Allen Downey, Jeffrey Elkner, Chris Meyers and learn the basics. Then dive into this book. Dive Into PYTHON was written by Mark Pilgram and is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Table of Contents

1. Installing Python
2. Your First Python Program
3. Native Datatypes
4. The Power Of Introspection
5. Objects and Object-Orientation
6. Exceptions and File Handling
7. Regular Expressions
8. HTML Processing
9. XML Processing
10. Scripts and Streams
11. HTTP Web Services
12. SOAP Web Services
13. Unit Testing
14. Test-First Programming
15. Refactoring
16. Functional Programming
17. Dynamic functions
18. Performance Tuning
A. Further reading
B. A 5-minute review
C. Tips and tricks
D. List of examples
E. Revision history
F. About the book
G. GNU Free Documentation License
H. Python license

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