"Updated for 3.3 and 2.7"--Cover.

Includes index.

A Python Q&A session -- How Python runs programs -- How you run programs -- Introducing Python object types -- Numeric types -- The dynamic typing interlude -- String fundamentals -- Lists and dictionaries -- Tuples, files, and everything else -- Introducing Python statements -- Assignments, expressions, and prints -- if tests and syntax rules -- while and for loops -- Iterations and comprehensions -- The documentation interlude -- Function basics -- Scopes -- Arguments -- Advanced function topics -- Comprehensions and generations -- The benchmarking interlude -- Modules : the big picture -- Module coding basics -- Module packages -- Advanced module topics -- OOP : the big picture -- Class coding basics -- A more realistic example -- Class coding details -- Operator overloading -- Designing with classes -- Advanced class topics -- Exception basics -- Exception coding details -- Exception objects -- Designing with exceptions -- Unicode and byte strings -- Managed attributes -- Decorators -- Metaclasses -- All good things.

Describes the features of the Python programming language, covering such topics as types and operations, statements and syntax, functions, modules, classes and OOP, and exceptions and tools.