Table of Contents

Your First Python Program.- Native Datatypes.- Comprehensions.- Strings.- Regular Expressions.- Closures and Generators.- Classes and Iterators.- Advanced Iterators.- Unit Testing.- Refactoring.- Files.- XML.- Serializing Python Objects.- HTTP Web Services.- Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3.- Packaging Python Libraries.

About the Author

By day, Mark Pilgrim is a developer advocate for open source and open standards. By night, he is a husband and father who lives in North Carolina with his wife, his two sons, and his big slobbery dog. He spends his copious free time sunbathing, skydiving, and making up autobiographical information.