Preface
Part 1: The Beginning
1. A Sneak Preview
-"Programming Python: The Short Story"
-The Task
-Step 1: Representing Records
-Step 2: Storing Records Persistently
-Step 3: Stepping Up to OOP
-Step 4: Adding Console Interaction
-Step 5: Adding a GUI
-Step 6: Adding a Web Interface
-The End of the Demo
Part 2: System Programming
2. System Tools
-"The os.path to Knowledge"
-System Scripting Overview
-Introducing the sys Module
-Introducing the os Module
3. Script Execution Context
-"I'd Like to Have an Argument, Please"
-Current Working Directory
-Command-Line Arguments
-Shell Environment Variables
-Standard Streams
4. File and Directory Tools
-"Erase Your Hard Drive in Five Easy Steps!"
-File Tools
-Directory Tools
5. Parallel System Tools
-"Telling the Monkeys What to Do"
-Forking Processes
-Threads
-Program Exits
-Interprocess Communication
-The multiprocessing Module
-Other Ways to Start Programs
-A Portable Program-Launch Framework
-Other System Tools Coverage
6. Complete System Programs
-"The Greps of Wrath"
-A Quick Game of "Find the Biggest Python File"
-Splitting and Joining Files
-Generating Redirection Web Pages
-A Regression Test Script
-Copying Directory Trees
-Comparing Directory Trees
-Searching Directory Trees
-Visitor: Walking Directories "++"
-Playing Media Files
-Automated Program Launchers (External)
Part 3: GUI Programming
7. Graphical User Interfaces
-"Here's Looking at You, Kid"
-Python GUI Development Options
-tkinter Overview
-Climbing the GUI Learning Curve
-tkinter Coding Alternatives
-Adding Buttons and Callbacks
-Adding User-Defined Callback Handlers
-Adding Multiple Widgets
-Customizing Widgets with Classes
-Reusable GUI Components with Classes
-The End of the Tutorial
-Python/tkinter for Tcl/Tk Converts
8. A tkinter Tour, Part 1
-"Widgets and Gadgets and GUIs, Oh My!"
-Configuring Widget Appearance
-Top-Level Windows
-Dialogs
-Binding Events
-Message and Entry
-Checkbutton, Radiobutton, and Scale
-Running GUI Code Three Ways
-Images
-Viewing and Processing Images with PIL
9. A tkinter Tour, Part 2
-"On Today's Menu: Spam, Spam, and Spam"
-Menus
-Listboxes and Scrollbars
-Text
-Canvas
-Grids
-Time Tools, Threads, and Animation
-The End of the Tour
10. GUI Coding Techniques
-"Building a Better Mousetrap"
-GuiMixin: Common Tool Mixin Classes
-GuiMaker: Automating Menus and Toolbars
-ShellGui: GUIs for Command-Line Tools
-GuiStreams: Redirecting Streams to Widgets
-Reloading Callback Handlers Dynamically
-Wrapping Up Top-Level Window Interfaces
-GUIs, Threads, and Queues
-More Ways to Add GUIs to Non-GUI Code
-The PyDemos and PyGadgets Launchers
11. Complete GUI Programs
-"Python, Open Source, and Camaros"
-PyEdit: A Text Editor Program/Object
-PyPhoto: An Image Viewer and Resizer
-PyView: An Image and Notes Slideshow
-PyDraw: Painting and Moving Graphics
-PyClock: An Analog/Digital Clock Widget
-PyToe: A Tic-Tac-Toe Game Widget
-Where to Go from Here
Part 4: Internet Programming
12. Network Scripting
-"Tune In, Log On, and Drop Out"
-Python Internet Development Options
-Plumbing the Internet
-Socket Programming
-Handling Multiple Clients
-Making Sockets Look Like Files and Streams
-A Simple Python File Server
13. Client-Side Scripting
-"Socket to Me!"
-FTP: Transferring Files over the Net
-Transferring Files with ftplib
-Transferring Directories with ftplib
-Transferring Directory Trees with ftplib
-Processing Internet Email
-POP: Fetching Email
-SMTP: Sending Email
-email: Parsing and Composing Mail Content
-A Console-Based Email Client
-The mailtools Utility Package
-NNTP: Accessing Newsgroups
-HTTP: Accessing Websites
-The urllib Package Revisited
-Other Client-Side Scripting Options
14. The PyMailGUI Client
-"Use the Source, Luke"
-Major PyMailGUI Changes
-A PyMailGUI Demo
-PyMailGUI Implementation
-Ideas for Improvement
15. Server-Side Scripting
-"Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave"
-What's a Server-Side CGI Script?
-Running Server-Side Examples
-Climbing the CGI Learning Curve
-Saving State Information in CGI Scripts
-The Hello World Selector
-Refactoring Code for Maintainability
-More on HTML and URL Escapes
-Transferring Files to Clients and Servers
16. The PyMailCGI Server
-"Things to Do When Visiting Chicago"
-The PyMailCGI Website
-The Root Page
-Sending Mail by SMTP
-Reading POP Email
-Processing Fetched Mail
-Utility Modules
-Web Scripting Trade-Offs
Part 5: Tools and Techniques
17. Databases and Persistence
-"Give Me an Order of Persistence, but Hold the Pickles"
-Persistence Options in Python
-DBM Files
-Pickled Objects
-Shelve Files
-The ZODB Object-Oriented Database
-SQL Database Interfaces
-ORMs: Object Relational Mappers
-PyForm: A Persistent Object Viewer (External)
18. Data Structures
-"oses Are Red, Violets Are Blue; Lists Are Mutable, and So Is Set Foo"
-Implementing Stacks
-Implementing Sets
-Subclassing Built-in Types
-Binary Search Trees
-Graph Searching
-Permuting Sequences
-Reversing and Sorting Sequences
-PyTree: A Generic Tree Object Viewer
19. Text and Language
-"See Jack Hack. Hack, Jack, Hack"
-Strategies for Processing Text in Python
-String Method Utilities
-Regular Expression Pattern Matching
-XML and HTML Parsing
-Advanced Language Tools
-Custom Language Parsers
-PyCalc: A Calculator Program/Object
20. Python/C Integration
-"I Am Lost at C"
-Extending Python in C: Overview
-A Simple C Extension Module
-The SWIG Integration Code Generator
-Wrapping C Environment Calls
-Wrapping C++ Classes with SWIG
-Other Extending Tools
-Embedding Python in C: Overview
-Basic Embedding Techniques
-Registering Callback Handler Objects
-Using Python Classes in C
-Other Integration Topics
Part 6: The End
21. Conclusion: Python and the Development Cycle
-"That's the End of the Book, Now Here's the Meaning of Life"
-"Something's Wrong with the Way We Program Computers"
-The "Gilligan Factor"
-Doing the Right Thing
-Enter Python
-But What About That Bottleneck?
-On Sinking the Titanic
-So What's "Python: The Sequel"?
-In the Final Analysis...
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