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About the AuthorMark Lutz is the world leader in Python training, the author of Python’s earliest andbest-selling texts, and a pioneering figure in the Python community.Mark is the author of the O’Reilly books Programming Python and Python PocketReference, both currently in third editions. He has been using and promoting Pythonsince 1992, started writing Python books in 1995, began teaching Python classes in1997, and has instructed more than 200 Python training sessions as of mid-2007.In addition, he holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Universityof Wisconsin, and during the last 25 years has worked on compilers, programmingtools, scripting applications, and assorted client/server systems.Whenever Mark gets a break from spreading the Python word, he leads an ordinarylife in Colorado. Mark can be reached by email at lutz@rmi.net, or on the Web athttp://www.rmi.net/~lutz and http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training.ColophonThe animal on the cover of Learning Python, Third Edition, is a wood rat (NeotomaMuridae). The wood rat lives in a wide range of conditions (mostly rocky, scrub, anddesert areas) over much of North and Central America, generally at some distancefrom humans. They are good climbers, nesting in trees or bushes up to six meters offthe ground; some species burrow underground or in rock crevices or inhabit otherspecies’ abandoned holes.These grayish-beige, medium-size rodents are the original pack rats: they carryanything and everything into their homes, whether or not it’s needed, and are especiallyattracted to shiny objects such as tin cans, glass, and silverware.The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from Cuvier’s Animals. The cover font isAdobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is AdobeMyriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSans Mono Condensed.
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Learning Python
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THIRD EDITIONLearning PythonMark Lu
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To Vera.You are my life.
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3. How You Run Programs . . . . . .
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5. Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . .
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8. Lists and Dictionaries . . . . .
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Statement rule special cases 208Blo
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Iterators: A First Look 258File Ite
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Scopes and Nested Functions 320Nest
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How Imports Work 3891. Find It 390T
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Brain Builder 445Chapter Quiz 445Qu
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25. Designing with Classes . . . .
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Preface1This book provides an intro
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In addition, this entire edition in
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This book is designed to be an intr
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Part I, Getting StartedWe begin wit
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Preparing for Python 3.0The first a
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• In the iterator protocol, the X
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We appreciate, but do not require,
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It’s been a long and winding road
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PART II.Getting Started
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Developer productivityPython boosts
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Is Python a “Scripting Language
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Who Uses Python Today?At this writi
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(both Classic and OS X). A free ext
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Gaming, Images, AI, XML, Robots, an
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Besides the language interpreter it
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Python Is Engineering, Not ArtWhen
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world, the truth is that Python cre
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ChapterCHAPTER22How Python Runs Pro
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Because installation details are so
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If Python cannot write the byte cod
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Python Implementation AlternativesR
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Roughly, while your program runs, P
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Future Possibilities?Finally, note
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ChapterCHAPTER33How You Run Program
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Here, the last two lines typed are
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un it again without retyping it fro
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Using Command Lines and FilesRunnin
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In this case, you don’t need the
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The raw_input TrickUnfortunately, o
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In simple terms, every file of Pyth
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Alternatively, you can fetch (reall
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Because of these complications (and
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Figure 3-3. The main Python shell w
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start occasionally on some Windows
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Embedding CallsAt this point, we’
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Which Option Should I Use?With all
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6. IDLE can still be hung by some t
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5. Errors. Experiment with typing m
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Chapter 4CHAPTER 4Introducing Pytho
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Python’s Core Data TypesTable 4-1
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print the result—with more than 3
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In a slice, the left bound defaults
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S = 'spam'>>> S.upper( ) # Upper- a
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msg'\naaaaaaaaaaaaa\nbbb\'\'\'bbbbb
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M.reverse( )>>> M['cc', 'bb', 'aa']
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diag = [M[i][i] for i in [0, 1, 2]]
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ec['job'][-1] # Index the nested li
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on any object that is a sequence an
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TuplesThe tuple object (pronounced
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Other Core TypesBeyond the core typ
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def lastName(self):return self.name
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Chapter 5CHAPTER 5Numbers5This chap
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Hexadecimal and octal literalsThe r
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Mixed Operators Follow Operator Pre
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Numbers in ActionProbably the best
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(2.0 + a) # Auto echo output: more
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(9 / 3), (9.0 / 3), (9 // 3), (9 //
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Hexadecimal and Octal NotationAs me
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The random module can be useful for
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Such operations are convenient when
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B RAINB UILDERChapter Quiz1. What i
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Python to use the name a as a varia
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However, that’s not really what
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Names References Objectsa=3b=aa 3bF
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changes, they can impact other part
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import sys>>> sys.getrefcount(1) #
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Chapter 7CHAPTER 7Strings7The next
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Single- and Double-Quoted Strings A
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Some escape sequences allow you to
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Triple Quotes Code Multiline Block
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Because Unicode is designed to hand
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Notice that operator overloading is
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• Indexing (S[i]) fetches compone
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Why You Will Care: SlicesThroughout
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Such conversions can be used in con
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The third example again inserts thr
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eply = """Greetings...Hello %(name)
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S = 'spammy'>>> S = S[:3] + 'xx' +
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can pull out its components by spli
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x'aspambspamcspam'To access the sam
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B RAINB UILDERChapter Quiz1. Can th
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Variable-length, heterogeneous, and
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espond to all of the general sequen
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Both index and slice assignments ar
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In some types of programs, the list
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Tables of object references (hash t
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Later in this chapter and book, you
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Dictionaries also provide a copy me
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Here, it looks as if D is a 100-ite
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Other ways to make dictionariesFina
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Of the category immutable sequenceL
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T = tuple(tmp) # Make a tuple from
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Table 9-2. Common file operations (
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F.write('%s,%s,%s\n' % (X, Y, Z)) #
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We get back an equivalent dictionar
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Why You Will Care: Operator Overloa
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We studied this phenomenon in Chapt
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For instance, a comparison of list
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Python also provides a special obje
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Because types can be subclassed in
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Beware of Cyclic Data StructuresWe
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c. Finally, how does Python handle
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PART IIIIII.Statements and Syntax
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Python’s StatementsTable 10-1 sum
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What Python AddsThe one new syntax
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Why Indentation Syntax?The indentat
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My point is that even when a langua
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prints, function calls, and the lik
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Armed with this information, we can
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an except part that gives the excep
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• Implicit assignments: import, f
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In fact, the original tuple and lis
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Notice that this code is using the
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Augmented assignments have three ad
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Reserved words are off-limitsNames
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Expression StatementsIn Python, you
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Table 11-5. print statement formsOp
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The print >> file ExtensionThis tri
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In Python 3.0, the print statement
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ChapterCHAPTER1212if Tests 12This c
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If you’ve used languages like C o
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As you’ve seen, there are no vari
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• Triple-quoted string literals c
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[ ] or 33>>> [ ] or { }{ }In the fi
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of Python 2.5. Again, though, you s
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ChapterCHAPTER1313while and for Loo
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Finally, notice that Python doesn
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Because continue jumps to the top o
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print 'Ni'breakx = x[1:]else:print
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ExamplesLet’s type a few for loop
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Note that this example is easier to
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eadlines loads a file all at once i
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Moreover, the iterator version has
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We saw the sorted function used her
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Although such range results may be
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To really change the list as we mar
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Dictionary construction with zipIn
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List Comprehensions: A First LookIn
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and add it to the result list. Agai
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ChapterCHAPTER1414The Documentation
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Only some of the many names are dis
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Note that you will generally want t
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FILE(built-in)DESCRIPTIONThis modul
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too). Enter the name of a module yo
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Figure 14-3. PyDoc can serve up doc
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Figure 14-4. Python’s standard ma
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• Use simple for loops instead of
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if found:print 'at index', ielse:pr
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Chapter 15CHAPTER 15Function Basics
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In this chapter, we will explore ho
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def Executes at RuntimeThe Python d
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Polymorphism in PythonAs we just sa
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s1 = "SPAM">>> s2 = "SCAM">>> inter
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In all cases, the scope of a variab
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lambdas, then the global (G) scope,
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have to import it in order to inspe
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Here, x, y, and z are all globals i
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Here again, the best prescription i
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Notice that the global declaration
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Retaining enclosing scopes’ state
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def makeActions( ):... acts = []...
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Python’s pass-by-assignment schem
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Avoiding Mutable Argument ChangesAr
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Defaults: specify values for argume
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DefaultsWe talked a little about de
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func(*args)1 2 3 4Similarly, the **
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if arg < res:res = argreturn resdef
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def union(*args):res = []for seq in
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For both scopes and arguments, we a
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Quiz Answers1. The output here is '
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Function objects returned by runnin
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a dictionary becomes a more general
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What wasn’t illustrated in the pr
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around this, simply build up the ar
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Moreover, map can be used in more a
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Together with map, filter and reduc
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... if x % 2 == 0:... res.append(x)
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List comprehensions are powerful to
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Why You Will Care: List Comprehensi
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If you want to see what is going on
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for key in D:... print key, D[key].
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I’ve mentioned a few times that l
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For more insight, try modifying the
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seen some of these uses in earlier
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...>>> selector( )99Remember, thoug
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Functions Without returnsIn Python
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Chapter 18CHAPTER 18Modules: The Bi
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How to Structure a ProgramGenerally
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in any other programs you may write
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Home directoryPython first looks fo
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Module file selectionKeep in mind t
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Because this last import step actua
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B RAINB UILDERChapter Quiz1. How do
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ecause if is a reserved word—when
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As one consequence, because top-lev
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Like all assignments, the from stat
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Files Generate NamespacesSo, how do
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Qualification is really an expressi
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X = 1import mod2print X,print mod2.
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• Reloads impact all clients that
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Although we’ve already seen enoug
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Chapter 20CHAPTER 20Module Packages
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dir0\dir1\dir2\mod.pyand an import
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import dir1.dir2.mod # Later import
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A Tale of Three SystemsThe only tim
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Also, notice in the install hierarc
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from * copies out all names, the im
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Unit Tests with _ _name_ _In fact,
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of a running Python program, and so
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from module import X. . .reload(mod
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Chapter 22CHAPTER 22OOP: The Big Pi
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Customization via inheritanceClasse
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The _ _init_ _ method is known as t
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Chapter 23CHAPTER 23Class Coding Ba
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A First ExampleLet’s turn to a re
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Although less common, we could even
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Z (instance)- datais-aSecondClass-
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Chapter 24CHAPTER 24Class Coding De
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Here, because the name spam is assi
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This extension coding pattern is al
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def delegate(self):self.action( )de
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All operator overloading methods ar
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def _ _iter_ _(self): # Get iterato
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Overloading by Call Signatures (or
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Employee does stuffChef makes foodS
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if __name__ == "_ _main_ _":X = Sub
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On the other hand, if we qualify th
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docstr.func._ _doc_ _'I am: docstr.
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Chapter 26CHAPTER 26Advanced Class
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This change allows you to customize
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explored in Chapter 5; this type pr
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x = classic( )>>> x.age # Runs _ _g
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class attributes instead of instanc
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such methods, classes call the buil
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in which we list them in the class
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c. Is there a general way to route
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Why You Will Care: OOP by the Maste
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PART VIIVII.Exceptions and Tools
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When this code is run, the followin
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the globals reside in. Passing extr
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Notice that this class’ _ _exit_
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ChapterCHAPTER2828Exception Objects
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Class-Based ExceptionsStrings are a
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except StandardError:...handle Pyth
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aise instanceraise class, instance#
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Functions Signal Conditions with ra
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At the end of this chapter, we’ll
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String Exceptions Match by Identity
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The Python ToolsetFrom this point f
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Appendix AAPPENDIX AInstallation an
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When installed on Windows, Python a
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