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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: Getting Started with Python
• Chapter 1: Talking to Your Computer
• Understanding Why You Want to Talk to Your Computer
• Knowing that an Application Is a Form of Communication
• Defining What an Application Is
• Understanding Why Python Is So Cool
• Chapter 2: Working with Google Colab
• Defining Google Colab
• Working with Notebooks
• Performing Common Tasks
• Using Hardware Acceleration
• Executing the Code
• Getting Help
• Chapter 3: Interacting with Python
• Typing a Command
• Getting Python’s Help
• Finding Out More about Functions and Objects
• Playing the Part of Inspector
• Chapter 4: Writing Your First Application
• Understanding Why IDEs Are Important
• Creating the Application
• Running the Application
• Understanding the Use of Indentation
• Adding Comments
• Making Your Notebook Informative, Descriptive, and Pretty
• Closing and Halting a Notepad
• Chapter 5: Performing Magic
• Understanding the Concept of a Magic Command
• What Kind of Magic Do You Want to Perform?
• Learning the Magic Commands
• Part 2: Talking the Talk
• Chapter 6: Storing and Modifying Information
• Storing Information
• Defining the Essential Python Data Types
• Working with Dates and Times
• Chapter 7: Managing Information
• Controlling How Python Views Data
• Working with Operators
• Creating and Using Functions
• Getting User Input
• Chapter 8: Making Decisions
• Making Simple Decisions by Using the if Statement
• Choosing Alternatives by Using the if…else Statement
• Using Nested Decision Statements
• Chapter 9: Performing Repetitive Tasks
• Processing Data Using the for Statement
• Processing Data by Using the while Statement
• Nesting Loop Statements
• Chapter 10: Dealing with Errors
• Knowing Why Python Doesn’t Understand You
• Considering the Sources of Errors
• Catching Exceptions
• Raising Exceptions
• Deciding to Say “Oops” in Your Own Way: Custom Exceptions
• Using the finally Clause
• Part 3: Performing Common Tasks
• Chapter 11: Interacting with Packages
• Creating Code Groupings
• Importing Packages
• Finding Packages
• Downloading Packages from Other Sources
• Viewing the Package Content
• Viewing Package Documentation
• Chapter 12: Working with Strings
• Understanding That Strings Are Different
• Creating Stings with Special Characters
• Selecting Individual Characters
• Slicing and Dicing Strings
• Locating a Value in a String
• Using String Interpolation
• Chapter 13: Managing Lists
• Organizing Information in an Application
• Creating Lists
• Accessing Lists
• Looping through Lists
• Modifying Lists
• Searching Lists
• Sorting Lists
• Printing Lists
• Working with the Counter Object
• Chapter 14: Collecting All Sorts of Data
• Understanding Collections
• Working with Tuples
• Working with Dictionaries
• Creating Stacks Using Lists
• Working with queues
• Working with deques
• Chapter 15: Creating and Using Classes
• Considering the Parts of a Class
• Creating and Using an External Class
• Extending Classes to Make New Classes
• Part 4: Performing Advanced Tasks
• Chapter 16: Storing Data in Files
• Understanding How Permanent Storage Works
• Creating Content for Permanent Storage
• Creating a File
• Reading File Content
• Updating File Content
• Deleting a File
• Chapter 17: Sending an Email
• Understanding What Happens When You Send Email
• Part 5: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 18: Ten Amazing Programming Resources
• Working with the Python Documentation Online
• Discovering Details Using a Tutorial
• Performing Web Programming by Using Python
• Locating Useful (versus Useless) Modules
• Creating Applications Faster by Using an IDE
• Checking Your Syntax with Greater Ease
• Using XML to Your Advantage
• Getting Past the Common Python Newbie Errors
• Understanding Unicode
• Making Your Python Application Fast
• Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Make a Living with Python
• Working in QA
• Becoming the IT Staff for a Smaller Organization
• Performing Specialty Scripting for Applications
• Administering a Network
• Teaching Programming Skills
• Helping People Decide on Location
• Performing Data Mining
• Interacting with Embedded Systems
• Carrying Out Scientific Tasks
• Performing Real-Time Analysis of Data
• Chapter 20: Ten Tools That Enhance Your Python Experience
• Tracking Bugs with Roundup Issue Tracker
• Creating a Virtual Environment by Using VirtualEnv
• Installing Your Application by Using PyInstaller
• Building Developer Documentation by Using pdoc
• Developing Application Code by Using Komodo Edit
• Debugging Your Application by Using pydbgr
• Entering an Interactive Environment by Using IPython
• Testing Python Applications by Using PyUnit
• Tidying Your Code by Using Isort
• Providing Version Control by Using Mercurial
• Chapter 21: Ten (Plus) Libraries You Need to Know About
• Developing a Secure Environment by Using CryptLib
• Interacting with Databases by Using SQLAlchemy
• Seeing the World by Using Google Maps
• Adding a Graphical User Interface by Using TkInter
• Providing a Nice Tabular Data Presentation by Using PrettyTable
• Enhancing Your Application with Sound by Using PyAudio
• Manipulating Images by Using PyQtGraph
• Locating Your Information by Using Whoosh
• Creating an Interoperable Java Environment by Using JPype
• Accessing Local Network Resources by Using Twisted Matrix
• Accessing Internet Resources by Using Libraries
• Index
• About the Author
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement