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Dive Into Python 3

Dive Into Python 3 will cover Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. Compared to the original Dive Into Python, 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 CC-BY-SA-3.0 license.

You can see the full table of contents (not finalized), or read what I’ve written so far:

  1. What’s New in “Dive Into Python 3”
  2. Installing Python
  3. Your First Python Program
  4. Native Datatypes
  5. Strings
  6. Regular Expressions
  7. Generators
  8. Iterators
  9. Advanced Iterators
  10. Unit Testing
  11. Test-first programming
  12. Refactoring
  13. Advanced Classes
  14. Files
  15. HTML processing
  16. XML processing
  17. Web services
  18. Performance tuning
  19. Packaging Python libraries
  20. Creating graphics with the Python Imaging Library
  21. Where to go from here
  22. Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3
  23. Porting Code to Python 3 with 2to3
  24. Special Method Names

There is a changelog, a feed, and discussion on Reddit. During development, you can download the book by cloning the Mercurial repository: 

you@localhost:~$ hg clone http://hg.diveintopython3.org/ diveintopython3

The final version will be downloadable as HTML and PDF.

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