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Dive Into Python 3

Dive Into Python 3 covers Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. Compared to Dive Into Python, it’s about 20% revised and 80% new material. I am publishing drafts online as I go. Please send feedback. 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. Comprehensions
  6. Strings
  7. Regular Expressions
  8. Closures & Generators
  9. Classes & Iterators
  10. Advanced Iterators
  11. Unit Testing
  12. Refactoring
  13. Files
  14. XML
  15. Serializing Python Objects
  16. HTTP Web Services
  17. Threading & Multiprocessing
  18. Packaging Python libraries
  19. Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3
  20. Where to go from here
  21. Porting Code to Python 3 with 2to3
  22. 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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