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<p style="clear:both;margin-top:0;padding-top:1.75em"><cite>Dive Into Python 3</cite> will cover Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. Compared to the original <cite><a href="http://diveintopython.org/">Dive Into Python</a></cite>, it will be about 50% revised and 50% new material. I will publish drafts online as I go. The final version will be published on paper by Apress. The book will remain online under the <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY-3.0</a> license.
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<p>There is a <a href="http://hg.diveintopython3.org/">changelog</a>, a <a rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://hg.diveintopython3.org/atom-log">feed</a>, and <a href="http://www.reddit.com/search?q=%22Dive+Into+Python+3%22">discussion on Reddit</a>. The final version will be downloadable as HTML and PDF. During development, the only way to download it is to clone the Mercurial repository:
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<p class="first"><cite>Dive Into Python 3</cite> will cover Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. Compared to the original <cite><a href="http://diveintopython.org/">Dive Into Python</a></cite>, it will be about 50% revised and 50% new material. I will publish drafts online as I go. The final version will be published on paper by Apress. The book will remain online under the <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY-3.0</a> license.
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<p>Here’s what I’ve written so far:</p>
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<li><a href="table-of-contents.html">Table of contents</a> (<strong>not finalized</strong>)
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<li><a href="your-first-python-program.html">Chapter 1. Your first Python program</a>
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<li><a href="case-study-porting-chardet-to-python-3.html">Chapter 20. Case study: porting <code>chardet</code> to Python 3</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html">Appendix A. Porting code to Python 3 with <code>2to3</code></a>
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<p>There is a <a href="http://hg.diveintopython3.org/">changelog</a>, a <a rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://hg.diveintopython3.org/atom-log">feed</a>, and <a href="http://www.reddit.com/search?q=%22Dive+Into+Python+3%22&sort=new">discussion on Reddit</a>. During development, you can download the book by cloning the Mercurial repository:
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<p>Below is the draft table of contents. It is <b>not finalized</b>. Only a few chapters have been written so far. The rest is just stubs and random notes to myself.
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<h1>Installing Python</h1>
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<h2>Python on Windows</h2>
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<h2>Python on Mac OS X</h2>
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<h2>Python on Linux</h2>
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<h2>Python from source</h2>
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<h2>The interactive shell</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1><a href="your-first-python-program.html">Your first Python program</a></h1>
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<h2>Diving in</h2>
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<h2>Declaring functions</h2>
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<h3>How Python's datatypes compare to other programming languages</h3>
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<h2>Writing readable code</h2>
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<h3>Why bother?</h3>
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<h3>Docstrings</h3>
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<h3>Function annotations</h3>
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<h3>Style conventions</h3>
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<h2>Everything is an object</h2>
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<h3>The import search path</h3>
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<h3>What's an object?</h3>
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<h2>Indenting code</h2>
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<h2>Testing modules</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1>Native Python datatypes</h1>
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<!-- "Lists and tuples and sets, oh my!" -->
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<h2>Lists</h2>
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<h3>Differences from Python 2</h3>
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<h3>Creating new a list</h3>
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<h3>Modifying a list</h3>
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<h3>Searching a list</h3>
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<h3>Deleting elements from a list</h3>
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<h3>List operators</h3>
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<h3>Looping through a list (list comprehensions)</h3>
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<h3>Tuples</h3>
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<h2>Dictionaries</h2>
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<h3>Differences from Python 2</h3>
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<h3>Creating a new dictionary</h3>
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<h3>Modifying a dictionary</h3>
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<h3>Deleting items from a dictionary</h3>
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<h3>Looping through a dictionary (dictionary comprehensions)</h3>
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<h3>Dictionary views</h3>
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<h2>Sets</h2>
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<h3>Differences from Python 2</h3>
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<h3>Creating a new set</h3>
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<h3>Modifying a set</h3>
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<h3>Deleting elements from a set</h3>
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<h3>Common set operations: union, intersection, and difference</h3>
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<h3>Frozen sets</h3>
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<h2>Numbers</h2>
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<h3>Differences from Python 2</h3>
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<h3>Integers</h3>
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<h3>Long integers</h3>
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<h3>Floating point numbers</h3>
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<h3>Complex numbers</h3>
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<h3>Common numerical operations</h3>
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<h1></h1>
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<h2>Iterators</h2>
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<h2>Generators</h2>
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<h2>Views</h2>
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<h2>...</h2>
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<h1>Strings</h1>
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<h2>There ain't no such thing as "plain text"</h2>
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<h3>A brief history of character encoding</h3>
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<h3>What's a character?</h3>
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<h3>How strings are stored in memory</h3>
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<h3>Converting between different character encodings</h3>
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<h2>Differences from Python 2</h2>
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<h2>Formatting strings</h2>
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<h2>What's my string?</h2>
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<h2>Lists and strings</h2>
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<h2>Historical note on the string module</h2>
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<h2>Byte streams</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1>The power of introspection</h1>
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<h2>Diving in</h2>
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<h2>Using optional and named arguments</h2>
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<h3>Keyword-only arguments</h3>
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<h2>Using type, str, dir, and other built-in functions</h2>
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<h3>The type function</h3>
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<h3>The str function</h3>
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<h2>Filtering lists</h2>
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<h2>The peculiar nature of and and or</h2>
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<h3>Using the and-or trick</h3>
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<h2>Using lambda functions</h2>
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<h3>Real-world lambda functions</h3>
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<h2>Putting it all together</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1>Objects and object-orientation</h1>
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<h2>...major changes afoot...</h2>
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<h2>...stuff about decorators...</h2>
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<h2>...stuff about importing modules...</h2>
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<h3>...mention why "from module import *" is only allowed at module level</h3>
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<h1>Exceptions</h1>
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<h2>...</h2>
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<h1>Files</h1>
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<h2>File objects</h2>
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<h2>Reading files</h2>
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<h2>Close your files... or don't</h2>
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<h2>Handling I/O errors</h2>
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<h2>Writing to files</h2>
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<h1>Regular expressions</h1>
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<h2>Diving in</h2>
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<h2>Case study: street addresses</h2>
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<h2>Case study: Roman numerals</h2>
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<h3>Checking for thousands</h3>
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<h3>Checking for hundreds</h3>
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<h2>Using the {n,m} syntax</h2>
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<h3>Checking for tens and ones</h3>
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<h2>Verbose regular expressions</h2>
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<h2>Case study: parsing phone numbers</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1>HTML processing</h1>
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<h2>Diving in</h2>
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<h2>html5lib</h2>
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<h3>Installing html5lib</h3>
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<h3>Using html5lib</h3>
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<h2>Extracting data from HTML documents</h2>
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<h2>Building HTML documents</h2>
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<h2>Putting it all together</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1>XML Processing</h1>
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<h2>...major changes afoot...</h2>
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<h1>HTTP web services</h1>
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<h2>Diving in</h2>
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<h2>How not to fetch data over HTTP</h2>
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<h2>Features of HTTP</h2>
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<h3>User-Agent</h3>
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<h3>Redirects</h3>
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<h3>Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since</h3>
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<h3>ETag-If-None-Match</h3>
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<h3>Compression</h3>
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<h2>Differences from Python 2</h2>
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<h2>httplib2 (note: needs port)</h2>
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<h3>Installing httplib2</h3>
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<h3>Why httplib2 is better than http.client</h3>
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<h2>Debugging HTTP web services</h2>
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<h2>Setting the User-Agent</h2>
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<h2>Handling Last-Modified and ETag</h2>
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<h2>Handling redirects</h2>
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<h2>Handling compressed data</h2>
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<h2>Putting it all together</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1>Unit testing</h1>
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<h2>Introduction to Roman numerals</h2>
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<h2>Diving in</h2>
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<h2>Introducing romantest.py</h2>
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<h2>Testing for success</h2>
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<h2>Testing for failure</h2>
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<h2>Testing for sanity</h2>
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<h1>Test-first programming</h1>
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<h2>roman.py, stage 1</h2>
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<h2>roman.py, stage 2</h2>
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<h2>roman.py, stage 3</h2>
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<h2>roman.py, stage 4</h2>
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<h2>roman.py, stage 5</h2>
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<h1>Refactoring your code</h1>
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<h2>Handling bugs</h2>
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<h2>Handling changing requirements</h2>
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<h2>The art of refactoring</h2>
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<h2>Postscript</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1>Dynamic functions</h1>
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<h2>Diving in</h2>
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<h2>plural.py, stage 1</h2>
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<h2>plural.py, stage 2</h2>
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<h2>plural.py, stage 3</h2>
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<h2>plural.py, stage 4</h2>
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<h2>plural.py, stage 5</h2>
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<h2>plural.py, stage 6</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1>Metaclasses</h1>
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<h2>...once I figure out WTF metaclasses are...</h2>
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<h1>Performance tuning</h1>
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<h2>Diving in</h2>
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<h2>Using the timeit module</h2>
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<h2>Optimizing regular expressions</h2>
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<h2>Optimizing dictionary lookups</h2>
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<h2>Optimizing list operations</h2>
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<h2>Optimizing string manipulation</h2>
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<h2>Summary</h2>
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<h1><a href="case-study-porting-chardet-to-python-3.html">Case study: porting <code>chardet</code> to Python 3</a></h1>
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<h2><a href="#faq">Introducing <code class="filename">chardet</code>: a mini-FAQ</a></h2>
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<h3><a href="#faq.what">What is character encoding auto-detection?</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#faq.impossible">Isn't that impossible?</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#faq.who">Who wrote this detection algorithm?</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#faq.yippie">Yippie! Screw the standards, I'll just auto-detect everything!</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#faq.why">Why bother with auto-detection if it's slow, inaccurate, and non-standard?</a></h3>
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<h2><a href="#divingin">Diving in</a></h2>
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<h3><a href="#how.bom"><code>UTF-n</code> with a <abbr title="Byte Order Mark">BOM</abbr></a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#how.esc">Escaped encodings</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#how.mb">Multi-byte encodings</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#how.sb">Single-byte encodings</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#how.windows1252"><code>windows-1252</code></a></h3>
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<h2><a href="#running2to3">Running <code class="filename">2to3</code></a></h2>
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<h2><a href="#manual">Fixing what <code class="filename">2to3</code> can't</a></h2>
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<h3><a href="#falseisinvalidsyntax"><code>False</code> is invalid syntax</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#nomodulenamedconstants">No module named <code class="filename">constants</code></a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#namefileisnotdefined">Name '<var>file</var>' is not defined</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#cantuseastringpattern">Can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="#cantconvertbytesobject">Can't convert '<code>bytes</code>' object to <code>str</code> implicitly</a></h3>
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<h1>Packaging Python libraries</h1>
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<!-- http://pypi.python.org/pypi -->
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<h2>A brief history of packaging (and why it's harder than you think)</h2>
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<h2>setuptools</h2>
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<h2>distutils</h2>
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<h2>Eggs</h2>
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<h2>pip</h2>
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<h2>Platform-specific packaging</h2>
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<h3>Packaging by Linux distributions</h3>
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<h3>Py2exe</h3>
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<h1>Creating graphics with the Python Imaging Library</h1>
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<h2>...<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/7sj39/dive_into_python_3/c07b3cq">will likely get ported in time</a>...</h2>
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<h1>Where to go from here</h1>
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<p>Tentative because most of these have not been ported to Python 3 yet.
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<h2>WSGI</h2>
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<h2>Django</h2>
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<h2>Pylons</h2>
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<h2>TurboGears</h2>
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<h2>AppEngine</h2>
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<h2>IronPython</h2>
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<h2>Jython</h2>
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<h2>PyPy</h2>
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<h2>Stackless Python</h2>
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<h1><del>Scripts and streams</del></h1>
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<h2>...will be folded into other chapters...</h2>
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<h1><del>Functional programming</del></h1>
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<h2>...bits and pieces will be folded into other chapters...</h2>
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<h1><del>SOAP web services</del></h1>
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<h2>...no one will miss you...</h2>
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<div class="appendix">
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<h1 class="appendix">Appendix A. <a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html">Porting code to Python 3 with <code class="filename">2to3</code></a></h1>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#divingin">Diving in</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#print"><code>print</code> statement</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#unicodeliteral">Unicode string literals</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#unicode"><code>unicode()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#long"><code>long</code> data type</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#ne"><> comparison</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#has_key"><code>has_key()</code> dictionary method</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#dict">Dictionary methods that return lists</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#imports">Modules that have been renamed or reorganized</a>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#http"><code>http</code></a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#urllib"><code>urllib</code></a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#dbm"><code>dbm</code></a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#xmlrpc"><code>xmlrpc</code></a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#othermodules">Other modules</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#import">Relative imports within a package</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#next"><code>next()</code> iterator method</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#filter"><code>filter()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#map"><code>map()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#reduce"><code>reduce()</code> global function</a> (3.1+)
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#apply"><code>apply()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#intern"><code>intern()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#exec"><code>exec</code> statement</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#execfile"><code>execfile</code> statement</a> (3.1+)
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#repr"><code>repr</code> literals (backticks)</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#exceptions">Exceptions</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#except"><code>try...except</code> statement</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#raise"><code>raise</code> statement</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#throw"><code>throw</code> method on generators</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#xrange"><code>xrange()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#raw_input"><code>raw_input()</code> and <code>input()</code> global functions</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#funcattrs"><code>func_*</code> function attributes</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#xreadlines"><code>xreadlines()</code> I/O method</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#tuple_params"><code>lambda</code> functions with multiple parameters</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#methodattrs">Special method attributes</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#nonzero"><code>__nonzero__</code> special class attribute</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#numliterals">Octal literals</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#renames"><code>sys.maxint</code></a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#callable"><code>callable()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#zip"><code>zip()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#standarderror"><code>StandardError()</code> exception</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#types"><code>types</code> module constants</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#isinstance"><code>isinstance()</code> global function</a> (3.1+)
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#basestring"><code>basestring</code> datatype</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#itertools"><code>itertools</code> module</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#sys_exc"><code>sys.exc_type</code>, <code>sys.exc_value</code>, <code>sys.exc_traceback</code></a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#paren">List comprehensions over tuples</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#getcwdu"><code>os.getcwdu()</code> function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#metaclass">Metaclasses</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#nitpick">Matters of style</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#buffer"><code>buffer()</code> global function</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#wscomma">Whitespace around commas</a>
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<li><a href="porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#idioms">Common idioms</a>
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