FAQ

1) What is Python? What are the benefits of using Python? Python is a programming language with objects, modules, threads, exceptions ...

Glossary

Quick reference guide to Python. ">>>" The default Python prompt of the interactive shell. Often seen for code examp...

Dealing with the imperfect

...or how to handle errors So you now have the perfect program, it runs flawlessly, except for one detail, it will crash on invalid us...

File IO

Here is a simple example of file IO (input/output): # Write a file out_file = open("test.txt", "w") out_file.wri...

Revenge of the Strings

And now presenting a cool trick that can be done with strings: def shout(string): for character in string: print "Gimme a ...

More on Lists

We have already seen lists and how they can be used. Now that you have some more background I will go into more detail about lists. Firs...

Using Modules

Here's this chapter's typing exercise (name it cal.py (import actually looks for a file named calendar.py and reads it in. If ...