Core Python Programming (2nd Edition)

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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments for the Second Edition Reviewers and Contributors Shannon -jj Behrens (lead reviewer) Michael Santos (lead reviewer) Rick Kwan Lindell Aldermann (co-author of the new Unicode section in Chapter 6) Wai-Yip Tung (co-author of the Unicode example in Chapter 20) Eric Foster-Johnson (co-author of Beginning Python) Alex Martelli (editor of Python Cookbook and author of Python in a Nutshell) Larry Rosenstein Jim Orosz Krishna Srinivasan Chuck Kung Inspiration My wonderful children and pet hamster. Production Mark Taub and Debra Williams-Cauley (Acquisitions Editors) Lara Wysong (Project Editor) John Fuller (Managing Editor) Sam RC (Project Manager at International Typesetting and Composition) Acknowledgements for the First Edition
Reviewers and Contributors Guido van Rossum (creator of the Python language) Dowson Tong James C. Ahlstrom (co-author of Internet Programming with Python) S. Candelaria de Ram Cay S. Horstmann (co-author of Core Java and Core JavaServer Faces) Michael Santos Greg Ward (creator of distutils package and its documentation) Vincent C. Rubino Martijn Faassen Emile van Sebille Raymond Tsai Albert L. Anders (co-author of MT Programming chapter) Fredrik Lundh (author of Python Standard Library) Cameron Laird Fred L. Drake, Jr. (co-author of Python & XML and editor of the official Python documentation) Jeremy Hylton Steve Yoshimoto Aahz Maruch (author of Python for Dummies) Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (author of Mastering Regular Expressions) Pieter Claerhout Catriona (Kate) Johnston David Ascher (co-author of Learning Python and editor of Python Cookbook) Reg Charney
Page 2 and 3: Table of Contents | Index Core Pyth
Page 4 and 5: The Complete Developer's Guide to P
Page 6 and 7: Table of Contents | Index Copyright
Page 8 and 9: Section 6.2. Strings Section 6.3. S
Page 10 and 11: Section 11.5. Formal Arguments Sect
Page 12 and 13: Section 19.4. Brief Tour of Other G
Page 14 and 15: Copyright Many of the designations
Page 16 and 17: Praise for Core Python Programming
Page 18 and 19: Prentice Hall Core Series Core J2EE
Page 20 and 21: Another set of first edition reader
Page 22 and 23: We will continue to update the book
Page 24 and 25: Dictionaries are Python's mapping o
Page 26 and 27: and you will find it fun! We first
Page 30 and 31: Christian Tismer (creator of Stackl
Page 32 and 33: Chapter 1. Welcome to Python! Chapt
Page 34 and 35: 1.2. Origins Work on Python began i
Page 36 and 37: which you can build an application,
Page 38 and 39: often provides an extended distract
Page 40 and 41: Build It Yourself For most other pl
Page 42 and 43: Windows/DOS To add Python to your s
Page 44 and 45: It is also possible in Unix to auto
Page 46 and 47: MacOS X is very Unix-like (based on
Page 48 and 49: Figure 1-5. Starting IDLE in Window
Page 50 and 51: 1.6. Python Documentation Python do
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Page 58 and 59: abs(4) 4 >>> abs(-4) 4 We will intr
Page 60 and 61: %s means to substitute a string whi
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Page 64 and 65: 2.4. Operators The standard mathema
Page 66 and 67: 2.5. Variables and Assignment Rules
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Page 70 and 71: 2.8. Lists and Tuples Lists and tup
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2.14. List Comprehensions These are
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case you would have to revert back
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2.17. Functions Like many other lan
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2.18. Classes Classes are a core pa
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2.19. Modules A module is a logical
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2.20. Useful Functions In this chap
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2-4. User Input with raw_input(). a
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put in your own as you write your c
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Chapter 3. Python Basics Chapter To
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3.1.3. Multiple Statement Groups as
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3.2. Variable Assignment This secti
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Another way of assigning multiple v
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[a] access keyword obsoleted as of
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three PEPs: 7 (Style Guide for C Co
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3. Module imports Import all the mo
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Tests in the main body are an easy
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As responsible programmers, we are
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● It is explicitly removed from a
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Lines 13 The Unix startup line is f
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1 #!/usr/bin/env python 2 3 'readTe
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3.7. Related Modules/Developer Tool
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3-10. Exceptions. Replace the call
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4.1. Python Objects Python uses the
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4.3. Other Built-in Types ● Type
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4.4. Internal Types ● Code ● Fr
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4.5. Standard Type Operators 4.5.1.
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Example 2: foo1 and foo2 reference
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4.5.3. Boolean In the above example
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4.6. Standard Type Built-in Functio
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str(2e10) '20000000000.0' >>> >>> s
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>>> type(foo) # assumes foo instant
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then we do not even need to check b
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4.7. Type Factory Functions Since P
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Another way of categorizing the sta
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4.10. Exercises 4-1. Python Objects
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Chapter 5. Numbers Chapter Topics
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Okay, now that you have a good idea
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Core Style: Use uppercase "L" with
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5.3. Double Precision Floating Poin
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aComplex.real -8.333 >>> aComplex.i
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Automatic numeric coercion makes li
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True Division This is where divisio
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see that the unary operator binds m
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Bitwise Operator Function ~num (una
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In addition, because of the unifica
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divmod(10,2.5) (4.0, 0.0) >>> divmo
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floor(-1.2) -2.0 round(-1.2) -1.0 -
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5.7. Other Numeric Types 5.7.1. Boo
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cannot "be continued." If we were t
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uniform() Does almost the same thin
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5.9. Exercises The exercises in thi
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Why do we get 134L and not 1342 in
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Chapter 6. Sequences: Strings, List
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obj not in seq Tests if obj is not
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if not provided, or if None is used
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Extended Slicing with Stride Indice
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above. 6.1.3. Built-in Functions (B
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[a] New in Python 2.3. [b] key argu
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considered a substring. To access s
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6.3. Strings and Operators 6.3.1. S
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Notice how the omission of both ind
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numeric identifier strings that we
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method (see example below). There i
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6.4. String-Only Operators 6.4.1. F
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'6c' >>> >>> "%X" % 108 '6C' >>> >>
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>>> print s.substitute(lang='Python
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6.5. Built-in Functions 6.5.1. Stan
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isinstance() calls to verify type:
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string.isalpha() [a] , [b] [c] Retu
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>>> quest.endswith('color?') True >
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\t 011 9 0x09 HT Horizontal tab \n
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string was created when the operati
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convert the numeric value of the by
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Example 6.2. Simple Unicode String
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Mistake #2: Using the string module
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6.9. Related Modules Table 6.10 lis
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6.10. Summary of String Highlights
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How to Update Lists You can update
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str_list[2] 'over' >>> str_list[:2]
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Traceback (innermost last): File ""
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3. 4. 5. If elements are of the sam
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sum(a, 5) 20 >>> a = [6., 4., 5.] >
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[a] Removes and returns obj at give
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original list object is left as is,
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28 while True: 29 while True: 30 tr
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(Q)uit Enter choice: v You picked:
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Line-by-Line Explanation Because of
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6.16. Tuples Tuples are another con
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6.17. Tuple Operators and Built-in
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6.18. Special Features of Tuples 6.
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(4, True, 5) >>> (4, 2) < (3, 5) #
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6.19. Related Modules Table 6.12 li
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[id(x) for x in hubby] [9919616, 11
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6.21. Summary of Sequences Sequence
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str() • • • strip() • swapc
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d. Take a string and append a backw
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6-12. Strings. a. b. c. Create a fu
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6-19. Multi-Column Output. Given an
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7.1. Mapping Type: Dictionaries Dic
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dict2 = {'name': 'earth', 'port': 8
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dict2['arch'] = 'sunos5' # add new
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Beginning with Python 2.2, programm
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size, their keys match, and so do t
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dict(zip(('x', 'y'), (1, 2))) {'y':
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7.4. Mapping Type Built-in Methods
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dict2= {'host':'earth', 'port':80}
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7.5. Dictionary Keys Dictionary val
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39 try: 40 choice = raw_input(promp
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7.6. Set Types In mathematics, a se
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... print i ... c e h o p s How to
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superset of the second set (is a su
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s &= set('shop') >>> s set(['h', 's
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7.9. Set Type Built-in Methods 7.9.
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7.10. Operator, Function/Method Sum
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7.11. Related Modules The sets modu
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7-5. userpw2.py. The following prob
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characters in srcstr that are beyon
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Chapter 8. Conditionals and Loops C
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8.2. else Statement Like other lang
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8.3. elif (aka else-if) Statement e
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8.4. Conditional Expressions (aka "
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One must use caution when using whi
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Iterating by Sequence Item >>> name
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are "sequence-related" is that half
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8.8. continue Statement Core Note:
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8.10. else Statement ... Take Two I
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8.11. Iterators and the iter() Func
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Dictionaries Dictionaries and files
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8.12. List Comprehensions List comp
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and split each line up into words,
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of building up this long list, it w
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lines)? That way, we can use the ma
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8.15. Exercises 8-1. Conditionals.
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8-9. Fibonacci Numbers. The Fibonac
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Chapter 9. Files and Input/Output C
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9.2. File Built-in Functions [open(
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you see references to open(), you c
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Note that there is no "writeline()"
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We originally described how this pr
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f.seek(-12, 1) # move back 12 bytes
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9.4. File Built-in Attributes File
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9.6. Command-Line Arguments The sys
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9.7. File System Access to your fil
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Separation basename() Remove direct
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to confirm that the directory is in
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9.8. File Execution Whether we want
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other external extension modules th
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9.10. Related Modules There are ple
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Some other Python modules that gene
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9-10. Home Finances. Create a home
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9-15. Copying Files. Prompt for two
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9-24. File Transfer Between Archive
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10.1. What Are Exceptions? 10.1.1.
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10.2. Exceptions in Python As you w
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our case with the foo (non-)attribu
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As you can see, our code now runs s
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etval = None return retval Bear in
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except (Exc1[, Exc2[, ... ExcN]])[,
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except Exception, e: # handle real
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try: ... float(['float() does not',
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13 log = open('cardlog.txt', 'w') 1
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determine whether there were defect
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log.write('no txns this month\n') f
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10.4. Context Management 10.4.1. wi
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Now the with_suite executes. When e
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10.6. Raising Exceptions The interp
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aise string, args, tb Same as above
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try: assert 1 == 0, 'One does not e
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[d] Error in FloatingPointError flo
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[h] Unicode- UnicodeError related e
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10.9. *Creating Exceptions Although
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79 f.close() 80 81 for eachTest in
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the host's name and the port number
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10.10. Why Exceptions (Now)? There
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10.12. Exceptions and the sys Modul
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10.14. Exercises 10-1. Raising Exce
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10-9. Improving math.sqrt(). The ma
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11.1. What Are Functions? Functions
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Stated Number of Objects to Return
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Keyword arguments may also be used
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Line-by-Line Explanation Lines 14 O
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11.3. Creating Functions 11.3.1. de
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modules foo and bar, but can use th
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The main motivation behind decorato
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func = deco1(deco_arg)(deco2(func))
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11.4. Passing Functions The concept
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11.5. Formal Arguments A Python fun
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mandatory, whereas default argument
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11.6. Variable-Length Arguments The
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formal arg1: 1220 formal arg2: 740.
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We will leave a timeit() function a
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11.7. Functional Programming Python
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a(0,9) 9 >>> >>> b = lambda *z: z >
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In Figure 11-1, we observe our orig
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consisting of all the return values
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sequences together. This idiom was
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print 'the total is:', reduce((lamb
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some of those arguments, such as ma
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11.8. Variable Scope The scope of a
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print is_this_global def 11.8.3. Nu
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count2 = counter(100) >>> print cou
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For example, let us assume that fun
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name, e.g., post_logged() will log
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variable. Beginning in 2.1, the ent
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11.9. *Recursion A function is recu
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Now that we have our generator func
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count.next() 5 >>> count.next() 6 >
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11-3. Functions. In this exercise,
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11-14. *Recursion. We also looked a
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12.1. What Are Modules? A module al
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definitely vary as you go from syst
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Notice that each of the namespaces
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You will see just how useful they a
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It is possible to import specific m
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12.5. Features of Module Import 12.
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# impter.py # ############# import
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getting them "registered" (or rathe
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foo() We are going to ask for the d
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Furthermore, we can go down one mor
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12.8. Other Features of Modules 12.
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# overly massive handlers for the c
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12.9. Related Modules The following
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12-6. Extended Import. Create a new
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13.1. Introduction Before we get in
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class MyNewObjectType: 'define MyNe
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(We will add print statements to ou
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Each subclass must define its own c
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13.2. Object-Oriented Programming T
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interfacing with components of the
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derive; and class_suite consists of
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As you can tell, dir() returns a li
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In contrast for those of you using
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id(c1), id(c2), id(c3) # all refer
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13.6. Instance Attributes Instances
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wasWkEnd = HotelRoomCalc(119, 0.045
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The __dict__ attribute consists of
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However, we can only update the val
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As we have seen above, it is perilo
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override a parent method where you
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tcm = TestClassMethod() >>> TestCla
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13.10. Subclassing and Derivation C
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13.11. Inheritance Inheritance desc
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Now let us create the child class C
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class C(P): def __init__(self): sup
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def keys(self): return sorted(self.
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gc = GC() >>> gc.foo() # GC C1 P1 c
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class B(object): pass class C(objec
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isinstance(c2, C2) True >>> isinsta
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The super() function was added in 2
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13.13. Customizing Classes with Spe
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C.__*rshift__(self, obj) Right shif
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The Numeric Types set of special me
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We still have a few problems ... on
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The output is very nice, exactly wh
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from randseq import RandSeq >>> for
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Addition We define the addition ope
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[9 :: 'foofoofoo'] >>> b + e [3 ::
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which we raise in such cases. Lines
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13.15. *Delegation 13.15.1. Wrappin
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wrappedComplex.imag # imaginary att
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Creation time, modification time, a
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Wrapping a Specific Object with Enh
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13.16. Advanced Features of New-Sty
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preventing users from adding instan
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A descriptor is a class attribute,
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hide such a descriptor, just as you
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If we try it out, we see that it sa
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... print '%s(%d, %d) = %d' % \ ...
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13.18. Exercises 13-1. Programming.
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cash.update(100000.4567) >>> cash 1
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13-9. Queue Class. A queue is a dat
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13-17. Subclassing Numeric Types. T
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Chapter 14. Execution Environment C
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Internally, BIFs are represented as
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__dict__ object. Later on in this c
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>>> c.foo # bound method object >>
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14.2. Code Objects Callables are a
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not a string representation of an i
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The above was performed with raw_in
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A sequence was chosen; enter the se
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them into real Python objects. Othe
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import import2 And here are the con
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$ python /usr/local/lib/python2x/CG
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wait() Wait for child process to co
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As you can see, popen() returns a f
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14.5.5. subprocess Module After Pyt
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14.6. Restricted Execution At one t
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Calling sys.exit() causes the Pytho
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14.8. Miscellaneous Operating Syste
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14.9. Related Modules In Table 14.9
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14-9. Shells. Create a shell (opera
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Chapter 15. Regular Expressions Cha
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Python supports REs through the sta
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15.2. Special Symbols and Character
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"\.". 15.2.3. Matching from the Beg
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We will now introduce the most comm
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\d+(\.\d*)? Strings representing si
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match(pattern, string, flags=0) Att
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m = re.match('foo', 'foo') # patter
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15.3.7. Matching Any Single Charact
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... >>> In the above code, we creat
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Subgroup searches result in a more
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saving the output to a whodata.txt
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15.4. Regular Expressions Example W
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domain. After the final double-colo
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patt = '\d+-\d+-\d+' >>> re.search(
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15.5. Exercises Regular Expressions
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15-19. Extract the complete timesta
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16.1. Introduction 16.1.1. What Is
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The teller is, of course, the serve
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16.2. Sockets: Communication Endpoi
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word "datagram." Because these sock
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Method Description Server Socket Me
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We do not implement this in our exa
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it can immediately make a connectio
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One way to create this "friendly" e
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cs = socket() # create client socke
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[a] Socket address families support
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16.4. *SocketServer Module SocketSe
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$ And here is the server's: $ tsTse
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This is a timestamp TCP server usin
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calling the write() method of the t
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16.7. Exercises 16-1. Sockets. What
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3. Add logging capability to your n
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17.1. What Are Internet Clients? Be
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3. 4. Client logs in with username
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pwd() Current working directory cwd
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31 f.quit() 32 return 33 print '***
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after-hours, using Python is a grea
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17.3.3. Python and NNTP Based on yo
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article (id) Also similar to body()
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16 except socket.gaierror, e: 17 pr
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deltas = [ x[1]-x[0] for x in parti
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17.4. Electronic Mail Electronic ma
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4. Make service request(s) Quit As
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data: (250, 'ok ; id=20051226235837
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... p.quit() Before we take a look
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any errors. Example 17.3. SMTP and
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17.5. Related Modules One of Python
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17.6. Exercises FTP 17-1. Simple FT
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E-MAIL 17-16. Threaded Newsreader.
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Miscellaneous c. d. e. - Is the mes
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Chapter 18. Multithreaded Programmi
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18.2. Threads and Processes 18.2.1.
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Those of you interested in the sour
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18.3.5. Python Threading Modules Py
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The same loops from onethr.py are e
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