Programming Python

Foreword; How Time Flies!; Coming Attractions; Concluding Remarks; Foreword to the Second Edition (2001); Foreword from the First Edition (1996); Preface; "And Now for Something Completely Different . . . Again"; About This Book; About This Edition; This Book's Motivation; This Book's Structure; This Edition's Design; Using the Book's Examples; Conventions Used in This Book; Safari?? Enabled; Where to Look for Updates; Contacting O'Reilly; Using Code Examples; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Beginning; Chapter 1: Introducing Python; 1.1 "And Now for Something Completely Different"; 1.2 Python Philosophy 101; 1.3 The Life of Python; 1.4 Signs of the Python Times; 1.5 The Compulsory Features List; 1.6 What's Python Good For?; 1.7 What's Python Not Good For?; 1.8 Truth in Advertising; Chapter 2: A Sneak Preview; 2.1 "Programming Python: The Short Story"; 2.2 The Task; 2.3 Step 1: Representing Records; 2.4 Step 2: Storing Records Persistently; 2.5 Step 3: Stepping Up to OOP; 2.6 Step 4: Adding Console Interaction; 2.7 Step 5: Adding a GUI; 2.8 Step 6: Adding a Web Interface; 2.9 The End of the Demo; Part II: System Programming; Chapter 3: System Tools; 3.1 "The os.path to Knowledge"; 3.2 System Scripting Overview; 3.3 Introducing the sys Module; 3.4 Introducing the os Module; 3.5 Script Execution Context; 3.6 Current Working Directory; 3.7 Command-Line Arguments; 3.8 Shell Environment Variables; 3.9 Standard Streams; Chapter 4: File and Directory Tools; 4.1 "Erase Your Hard Drive in Five Easy Steps!"; 4.2 File Tools; 4.3 Directory Tools; Chapter 5: Parallel System Tools; 5.1 "Telling the Monkeys What to Do"; 5.2 Forking Processes; 5.3 Threads; 5.4 Program Exits; 5.5 Interprocess Communication; 5.6 Pipes; 5.7 Signals; 5.8 Other Ways to Start Programs; 5.9 A Portable Program-Launch Framework; 5.10 Other System Tools; Chapter 6: System Examples: Utilities; 6.1 "Splits and Joins and Alien Invasions"; 6.2 Splitting and Joining Files; 6.3 Generating Forward-Link Web Pages; 6.4 A Regression Test Script; 6.5 Packing and Unpacking Files; 6.6 Automated Program Launchers; Chapter 7: System Examples: Directories; 7.1 "The Greps of Wrath"; 7.2 Fixing DOS Line Ends; 7.3 Fixing DOS Filenames; 7.4 Searching Directory Trees; 7.5 Visitor: Walking Trees Generically; 7.6 Copying Directory Trees; 7.7 Deleting Directory Trees; 7.8 Comparing Directory Trees; Part III: GUI Programming; Chapter 8: Graphical User Interfaces; 8.1 "Here's Looking at You, Kid"; 8.2 Python GUI Development Options; 8.3 Tkinter Overview; 8.4 Climbing the GUI Learning Curve; 8.5 Tkinter Coding Basics; 8.6 Tkinter Coding Alternatives; 8.7 Adding Buttons and Callbacks; 8.8 Adding User-Defined Callback Handlers; 8.9 Adding Multiple Widgets; 8.10 Customizing Widgets with Classes; 8.11 Reusable GUI Components with Classes; 8.12 The End of the Tutorial; 8.13 Python/Tkinter for Tcl/Tk Converts; Chapter 9: A Tkinter Tour, Part 1; 9.1 "Widgets and Gadgets and GUIs, Oh My!"; 9.2 Configuring Widget Appearance; 9.3 Top-Level Windows; 9.4 Dialogs; 9.5 Binding Events; 9.6 Message and Entry; 9.7 Checkbutton, Radiobutton, and Scale; 9.8 Running GUI Code Three Ways; 9.9 Images; 9.10 Viewing and Processing Images with PIL; Chapter 10: A Tkinter Tour, Part 2; 10.1 "On Today's Menu: Spam, Spam, and Spam"; 10.2 Menus; 10.3 Listboxes and Scrollbars; 10.4 Text; 10.5 Canvas; 10.6 Grids; 10.7 Time Tools, Threads, and Animation; 10.8 The End of the Tour; 10.9 The PyDemos and PyGadgets Launchers; Chapter 11: GUI Coding Techniques; 11.1 "Building a Better Mouse Trap"; 11.2 GuiMixin: Common Tool Mixin Classes; 11.3 GuiMaker: Automating Menus and Toolbars; 11.4 ShellGui: GUIs for Command-Line Tools; 11.5 GuiStreams: Redirecting Streams to Widgets; 11.6 Reloading Callback Handlers Dynamically; 11.7 Wrapping Up Top-Level Window Interfaces; 11.8 GUIs, Threads, and Queues; 11.9 More Ways to Add GUIs to Non-GUI Code; Chapter 12: Complete GUI Programs; 12.1 "Python, Open Source, and Camaros"; 12.2 PyEdit: A Text Editor Program/Object; 12.3 PyPhoto: An Image Viewer and Resizer; 12.4 PyView: An Image and Notes Slideshow; 12.5 PyDraw: Painting and Moving Graphics; 12.6 PyClock: An Analog/Digital Clock Widget; 12.7 PyToe: A Tic-Tac-Toe Game Widget; 12.8 Where to Go from Here; Part IV: Internet Programming; Chapter 13: Network Scripting; 13.1 "Tune In, Log On, and Drop Out"; 13.2 Plumbing the Internet; 13.3 Socket Programming; 13.4 Handling Multiple Clients; 13.5 A Simple Python File Server; Chapter 14: Client-Side Scriptttttting; 14.1 "Socket to Me!"; 14.2 FTP: Transferring Files over the Net; 14.3 Processing Internet Email; 14.4 POP: Fetching Email; 14.5 SMTP: Sending Email; 14.6 email: Parsing and Composing Mails; 14.7 pymail: A Console-Based Email Client; 14.8 The mailtools Utility Package; 14.9 NNTP: Accessing Newsgroups; 14.10 HTTP: Accessing Web Sites; 14.11 Module urllib Revisited; 14.12 Other Client-Side Scripting Options; Chapter 15: The PyMailGUI Client; 15.1 "Use the Source, Luke"; 15.2 A PyMailGUI Demo; 15.3 PyMailGUI Implementation; Chapter 16: Server-Side Scripting; 16.1 "Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave"; 16.2 What's a Server-Side CGI Script?; 16.3 Running Server-Side Examples; 16.4 Climbing the CGI Learning Curve; 16.5 Saving State Information in CGI Scripts; 16.6 The Hello World Selector; 16.7 Refactoring Code for Maintainability; 16.8 More on HTML and URL Escapes; 16.9 Transferring Files to Clients and Servers; Chapter 17: The PyMailCGI Server; 17.1 "Things to Do When Visiting Chicago"; 17.2 The PyMailCGI Web Site; 17.3 The Root Page; 17.4 Sending Mail by SMTP; 17.5 Reading POP Email; 17.6 Processing Fetched Mail; 17.7 Utility Modules; 17.8 CGI Script Trade-Offs; Chapter 18: Advanced Internet Topics; 18.1 "Surfing on the Shoulders of Giants"; 18.2 Zope: A Web Application Framework; 18.3 HTMLgen: Web Pages from Objects; 18.4 Jython: Python for Java; 18.5 Grail: A Python-Based Web Browser; 18.6 XML Processing Tools; 18.7 Windows Web Scripting Extensions; 18.8 Python Server Pages; 18.9 Rolling Your Own Servers in Python; 18.10 And Other Cool Stuff; Part V: Tools and Techniques; Chapter 19: Databases and Persistence; 19.1 "Give Me an Order of Persistence, but Hold the Pickles"; 19.2 Persistence Options in Python; 19.3 DBM Files; 19.4 Pickled Objects; 19.5 Shelve Files; 19.6 The ZODB Object-Oriented Database; 19.7 SQL Database Interfaces; 19.8 PyForm: A Persistent Object Viewer; Chapter 20: Data Structures; 20.1 "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue; Lists Are Mutable, and So Is Set Foo"; 20.2 Implementing Stacks; 20.3 Implementing Sets; 20.4 Subclassing Built-In Types; 20.5 Binary Search Trees; 20.6 Graph Searching; 20.7 Reversing Sequences; 20.8 Permuting Sequences; 20.9 Sorting Sequences; 20.10 Data Structures Versus Python Built-Ins; 20.11 PyTree: A Generic Tree Object Viewer; Chapter 21: Text and Language; 21.1 "See Jack Hack. Hack, Jack, Hack"; 21.2 Strategies for Parsing Text in Python; 21.3 String Method Utilities; 21.4 Regular Expression Pattern Matching; 21.5 Advanced Language Tools; 21.6 Handcoded Parsers; 21.7 PyCalc: A Calculator Program/Object; Part VI: Integration; Chapter 22: Extending Python; 22.1 "I Am Lost at C"; 22.2 Integration Modes; 22.3 C Extensions Overview; 22.4 A Simple C Extension Module; 22.5 Extension Module Details; 22.6 The SWIG Integration Code Generator; 22.7 Wrapping C Environment Calls; 22.8 A C Extension Module String Stack; 22.9 A C Extension Type String Stack; 22.10 Wrapping C++ Classes with SWIG; 22.11 Other Extending Tools; Chapter 23: Embedding Python; 23.1 "Add Python. Mix Well. Repeat."; 23.2 C Embedding API Overview; 23.3 Basic Embedding Techniques; 23.4 Registering Callback Handler Objects; 23.5 Using Python Classes in C; 23.6 A High-Level Embedding API: ppembed; 23.7 Other Integration Topics; Part VIII: The End; Chapter 24: Conclusion: Python and the Development Cycle; 24.1 "That's the End of the Book, Now Here's the Meaning of Life"; 24.2 "Something's Wrong with the Way We Program Computers"; 24.3 The "Gilligan Factor"; 24.4 Doing the Right Thing; 24.5 Enter Python; 24.6 But What About That Bottleneck?; 24.7 On Sinking the Titanic; 24.8 So What's "Python: The Sequel"?; 24.9 In the Final Analysis . . .; 24.10 Postscript to the Second Edition (2000); 24.11 Postscript to the Third Edition (2006); Colophon;