Dive Into Python 3

“Dive Into Python 3” covers Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. Compared to Dive Into Python, it’s about 20% revised and 80% new material.

Book Description

You read the original “Dive Into Python” and maybe even bought it on paper. You already know Python 2 pretty well. You’re ready to take the plunge into Python 3. If all of that is true, read on. You can read it online or download it as a zipped HTML or PDF file for free. The book is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.

There are a huge number of python developers who will need to learn to port their code to python 3, and Dive Into Python 3 is the ideal hands-on introduction to the latest version of python for them. Its unique style of giving a chunk of code first and then picking it apart is ideally suited to existing developers who want to understand the new version of the language quickly.

Table of Contents

• What’s New in “Dive Into Python 3”
• Installing Python
• Your First Python Program
• Native Datatypes
• Comprehensions
• Strings
• Regular Expressions
• Closures & Generators
• Classes & Iterators
• Advanced Iterators
• Unit Testing
• Refactoring
• Files
• XML
• Serializing Python Objects
• HTTP Web Services
• Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3
• Packaging Python Libraries

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