* Installing Python * Your First Python Program ** TODO mention why from module import * is only allowed at module level * Native Datatypes * Strings * Regular Expressions * Closures & Generators * Classes & Iterators * DONE 2nd draft Advanced Iterators SCHEDULED: <2009-07-15 Wed> CLOSED: [2009-07-15 Wed 20:57] * TODO 2nd draft Unit Testing * TODO 1st draft Advanced Unit Testing * TODO 2nd draft Refactoring * TODO 1st draft Advanced Classes * DONE 1st draft Files SCHEDULED: <2009-07-16 Thu> CLOSED: [2009-07-19 Sun 15:26] ** Reading from text files *** Opening a file (to read) *** Character encoding *** File objects *** Closing a file **** Checking if a file is closed **** "with open(...) as file" pattern *** Reading data from a file one line at a time **** Line-endings ** Writing to text files *** Opening a file (to write) *** Character encoding again *** write(), writelines(), .writeable ** Handling I/O errors ** Binary files ** File-like objects ** Standard Input, Output, and Error ** Further reading * TODO 2nd draft XML * TODO 1st draft Serializing Python Objects * DONE 2nd draft HTTP Web Services CLOSED: [2009-07-15 Wed 20:57] * TODO 1st draft Threading & Multiprocessing * TODO 1st draft Packaging Python libraries * TODO 2nd draft Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3 * Where to go from here * TODO 2nd draft Porting Code to Python 3 with 2to3 * TODO 2nd draft Special Method Names * Bits to add somewhere ** TODO section on tuples ** TODO section (chapter?) on comprehensions *** TODO list comprehensions *** TODO set comprehensions *** TODO dictionary comprehensions ** TODO section on dictionary views several dictionary methods return them they're dynamic they update when the dictionary changes ** TODO function annotations? ** TODO PEP 8 style conventions ** TODO Decorators [[http://docs.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.1.html][@unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform.startswith("win"), "requires Windows")]] * Meta ** TODO generate HTML ** TODO generate PDF ** DONE all
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