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Contents

Abstract

This book will help you to learn the Python programming language, whether you are new to computers or an experienced programmer.

Chapters

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Installing Python
  4. First Steps
  5. Basics
  6. Operators and Expressions
  7. Control Flow
  8. Functions
  9. Modules
  10. Data Structures
  11. Problem Solving
  12. Object oriented programming
  13. Input Output
  14. Exceptions
  15. Standard Library
  16. More Python
  17. What Next?
  18. Appendix on FOSS
  19. Appendix on Revision History

Version

This version is much improved over the last publically released download. A downloadable version of this latest version will be made available soon (as soon as I figure out how to export a "book" from the MediaWiki pages).

Note that the earlier downloadable version is available from http://www.ibiblio.org/g2swap/byteofpython/files/120/ .

License

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license 2.5

TODO

  1. TODO list based on readers' comments
  2. Add information about packages to modules chapter
  3. Create a downloadable version
  4. Refer How Python Works
  5. What's new in Python 2.5