Python Cookbook 1st Edition by Alex Martelli, David Ascher IBSN 0596001673 9780596001674

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ISBN 10: 0596001673 
ISBN 13: 9780596001674
Author: Alex Martelli, David Ascher

Python Cookbook 1st Table of contents:

1. Python Shortcuts

• Swapping values without using a temporary variable

• Constructing a dictionary without excessive quoting

• Getting a value from a dictionary

• Using dictionaries to simulate switch/case statements

• Using a dictionary to count the occurrences of items

• Merging dictionaries

• Inverting a dictionary

• Merging two lists into a dictionary

• Extracting a subset of a dictionary

• Using lists as stacks or queues

• Initializing a list to a fixed number of elements

• Initializing a multidimensional array

• Flattening a nested sequence

2. Searching and Sorting

• Sorting a dictionary

• Sorting while guaranteeing sort stability

• Sorting by one field, then by another

• Case-insensitive string comparisons

• Binary search

• Finding the intersection of two lists

• Removing duplicates from a sequence

• Finding the most frequent items in a sequence

3. Text

• Processing a string one character at a time

• Testing if an object is string-like

• Aligning strings

• Expanding tabs

• Trimming whitespace

• Converting between characters and integers

• Encoding and decoding strings

• Parsing strings with regular expressions

• Replacing multiple patterns in a single pass

• Removing unwanted characters

• Checking for a prefix or suffix

• Counting words or lines in a file

4. Files

• Reading a file into a string

• Reading a file line-by-line

• Writing to a file

• Appending to a file

• Copying and moving files

• Getting file size and modification time

• Traversing directories

• File locking

• Temporary files

5. Object-Oriented Programming

• Simulating private variables

• Making a class property

• Customizing string representation of objects

• Delegation and proxy objects

• Class decorators

• Creating singleton objects

6. Threads, Processes, and Synchronization

• Starting a new thread

• Using thread-safe queues

• Synchronizing threads

• Using subprocesses

• Avoiding deadlocks

7. System Administration

• Running shell commands

• Reading environment variables

• Walking a directory tree

• Creating and deleting files/directories

• Checking free disk space

• Sending email from a script

8. Databases and Persistence

• Connecting to a database

• Executing queries

• Using parameterized queries

• Fetching data

• Serializing objects with pickle

• Using shelve for persistent storage

9. User Interfaces

• Creating a simple GUI with Tkinter

• Handling events

• Drawing in a canvas

• Building menus and dialogs

10. Network Programming

• Creating a simple client and server

• Transferring files over sockets

• Parsing URLs

• Handling HTTP requests

• Using FTP

11. Web Programming

• Generating HTML

• Handling forms

• Managing cookies

• Using a web framework

12. Processing XML

• Parsing XML with SAX and DOM

• Creating XML documents

• Validating XML

13. Distributed Programming

• Remote procedure calls

• Using XML-RPC

• Working with CORBA

14. Debugging and Testing

• Using the debugger

• Writing unit tests

• Profiling code

• Logging

15. Programs About Programs

• Inspecting objects at runtime

• Getting source code

• Disassembling functions

• Using reflection

16. Extending and Embedding

• Writing Python C extensions

• Embedding Python in C/C++ programs

• Using SWIG

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