Python Phrasebook

Essential Code and Commands

Brad Dayley

Publisher: O'Reilly, 2007 , 275 pages

ISBN: 0-672-32910-7

Synopsis:

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Python Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you need to quickly and effectively complete your programming projects in Python.

Concise and Accessible

Easy to carry and easy to use — lets you ditch all those bulky books for one portable guide.

Flexible and Functional

Packed with more than 100 customizable code snippets — so you can readily code functional Python in just about any situation.

Table of Contents:

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• Chapter 1: Understanding Python
• Why Use Python?
• Invoking the Interpreter
• Built-In Types
• Understanding Python Syntax
• Python Objects, Modules, Classes, and Functions
• Error Handling
• Using System Tools
• Chapter 2: Manipulating Strings
• Comparing Strings
• Joining Strings
• Splitting Strings
• Searching Strings for Substrings
• Search and Replace in Strings
• Searching Strings for Specific Endings/Beginnings
• Trimming Strings
• Aligning/Formatting Strings
• Executing Code Inside Strings
• Interpolating Variables Inside Strings
• Converting Unicode to Local Strings
• Chapter 3: Managing Data Types
• Defining a List
• Accessing a List
• Slicing a List
• Adding and Removing Items in a List
• Sorting a List
• Using Tuples
• Constructing a Dictionary
• Adding a Value to a Dictionary
• Retrieving a Value from a Dictionary
• Slicing a Dictionary
• Swapping Keys for Values in a Dictionary
• Chapter 4: Managing Files
• Opening and Closing Files
• Reading an Entire File
• Reading a Single Line from a File
• Accessing Each Word in a File
• Writing a File
• Determining the Number of Lines in a File
• Walking the Directory Tree
• Renaming Files
• Recursively Deleting Files and Subdirectories
• Searching for Files Based on Extension
• Creating a TAR File
• Extracting a File from a TAR File
• Adding Files to a ZIP File
• Retrieving Files from a ZIP File
• Chapter 5: Managing Threads
• Starting a New Thread
• Creating and Exiting Threads
• Synchronizing Threads
• Implementing a Multithreaded Priority Queue
• Initiating a Timer-Interrupted Thread
• Chapter 6: Managing Databases
• Adding Entries to a DBM File
• Retrieving Entries from a DBM File
• Updating Entries in a DBM File
• Pickling Objects to a File
• Unpickling Objects from a File
• Storing Objects in a Shelve File
• Retrieving Objects from a Shelve File
• Changing Objects in a Shelve File
• Connecting to a MySQL Database Server
• Creating a MySQL Database
• Adding Entries to a MySQL Database
• Retrieving Entries from a MySQL Database
• Chapter 7: Implementing Internet Communication
• Opening a Server-Side Socket for Receiving Data
• Opening a Client-Side Socket for Sending Data
• Receiving Streaming Data Using the ServerSocket Module
• Sending Streaming Data
• Sending Email Using SMTP
• Retrieving Email from a POP3 Server
• Using Python to Fetch Files from an FTP Server
• Chapter 8: Processing HTML
• Parsing URLs
• Opening HTML Documents
• Retrieving Links from HTML Documents
• Retrieving Images from HTML Documents
• Retrieving Text from HTML Documents
• Retrieving Cookies in HTML Documents
• Adding Quotes to Attribute Values in HTML Documents
• Chapter 9: Processing XML
• Loading an XML Document
• Checking for Well-Formed XML Documents
• Accessing Child Nodes
• Accessing Element Attributes
• Adding a Node to a DOM Tree
• Removing a Node from a DOM Tree
• Searching XML Documents
• Extracting Text from XML Documents
• Parsing XML Tags
• Chapter 10: Programming Web Services
• Adding HTML to Web Pages Using CGI Scripts
• Processing Parameters Passed to CGI Scripts
• Creating Self-Posting CGI Scripts
• Allowing Users to Upload Files via CGI Scripts
• Creating an HTTP Server to Handle GET Requests
• Creating an HTTP Server to Handle POST Requests
• Creating an HTTP Server to Process CGI Scripts
• Sending an HTTP GET Request from a Python Script
• Sending an HTTP POST Request from a Python Script
• Creating an XML-RPC Server
• Creating an XML-RPC Client
• Using SOAPpy to Access SOAP Web Services Through a WSDL File