Python For Dummies by Stef Maruch

By Stef Maruch

Python is likely one of the strongest, easy-to-read programming languages round, however it does have its boundaries. This normal objective, high-level language that may be prolonged and embedded is a great alternative for plenty of programming difficulties, yet a terrible approach to others.

Python For Dummies is the quick-and-easy advisor to getting the main out of this powerful software. This hands-on publication will convey you every thing you want to learn about construction courses, debugging code, and simplifying improvement, in addition to defining what activities it could actually practice. You’ll wrap your self round all of its complicated gains and turn into knowledgeable Python consumer very quickly. This consultant grants the instruments you wish to:

  • Master easy components and syntax
  • Document, layout, and debug programs
  • Work with strings like a pro
  • Direct a application with regulate structures
  • Integrate integers, advanced numbers, and modules
  • Build lists, stacks, and queues
  • Create an geared up dictionary
  • Handle services, info, and namespace
  • Construct purposes with modules and packages
  • Call, create, expand, and override classes
  • Access the net to reinforce your library
  • Understand the hot positive aspects of Python 2.5

Packed with severe idioms and nice assets to maximise your productiveness, Python For Dummies is the final word one-stop details consultant. In an issue of mins you’ll be accustomed to Python’s development blocks, strings, dictionaries, and units; and be in your technique to writing this system that you’ve dreamed about!

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To run a program or module, make sure it is open in the text editor and choose Run Run Module (on some versions, the command is File Run Script). The Python Shell restarts (clearing any names that it was storing from the previous session) and Python executes the code. Briefly meet a few other IDLE commands IDLE has Find commands (in the Find menu or Edit menu) to search for text in the frontmost IDLE window. It also has a Find in Files command that searches all files in the Python search path or a subset of those files.

REMEMBER Give users of your modules information about which attributes, functions, classes, and methods they should avoid accessing directly, passing to other functions, subclassing, or rewriting. ") Sometimes this information is conveyed by using a single underscore character as the first character in a name, which means the object is private. _links_to_process a private name because it's valid only inside the Spider class. We could have made url_in_site() a private name for the same reason, but we didn't in order to send the message that it's suitable for overriding in a subclass.

It can be more than one line if you begin and end it with three quotation marks. Here's an example docstring for a function we made up called printme(): def printme(me): """ Prints its argument. """ Here's what you see if you ask for help on the printme() function: >>> help(printme) Help on function printme in module __main__: printme(me) Prints its argument For detailed instructions on writing docstrings, see Chapter 11. Oopsies! Understanding Error Messages When Python finds syntax mistakes or other errors in your code, it gives you error messages to help you figure out what the problem is.

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