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[January 2014] The 5th Edition of the book
Python Pocket Reference—a quick-reference guide
to the Python language and libraries—is now available.
This new 260-page edition has been updated and expanded to cover both Python 3.4 and 2.7,
but remains a multiple version book, designed to apply to all Pythons in common
use in both the 3.X and 2.X lines. This edition has also been expanded substantially
with new topics and material, as described in
its Introduction. It's the most
comprehensive and complete version of this book to date.
As for its prior editions, this book is intended to serve as a
quick-reference supplement and companion to other books such as
Learning Python, filling in the gaps
in details omitted elsewhere. Its dual-version coverage also provides
a resource for programmers migrating to Python 3.X, now or in the future.
Python Pocket Reference, 5th Edition is available in print,
ebook, and online forms from bookstores and online retailers,
including Amazon and O'Reilly.
For purchase options and links, please see the
Purchase pointers page.
Update 2024:
please note that, while still broadly useful, this book does
not cover additions and changes in Python since its 2014 publication, and there
are currently no plans to update this book. For up-to-date language coverage, see
Learning Python, 6th Edition. For up-to-date
reference resources to complement LP6E, consider using Python's online
manuals.
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Contents
In sum, this edition's coverage spans usage, language, and libraries:
| Command-line options and tools | Arguments, environment, Windows launcher
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| Built-in types and operations | Objects, literals, expressions, methods
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| Statements and syntax | Formal syntax, name rules, indentation model
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| Functions and modules | Namespaces, scopes, imports, packages
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| Object-oriented programming tools | Inheritance algorithms, new-style classes
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| Operator overloading methods | Documentation for all __X__ methods
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| Built-in functions, exceptions, attributes | Coverage for both 3.X and 2.X built-ins
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| Commonly used standard library modules | sys, os, re, [tT]kinter, pickling, threading,...
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| Python SQL Database API | Portable relational database access
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| Python idioms and hints | Common coding and usage patterns
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Among this edition's new material are super() and MRO coverage; formal algorithms
of inheritance, indentation, imports, and context managers; and new standard library
modules including json and timeit.
For more details, check out its Introduction.
Related Books
This book is designed to be a reference-only extension to other
Python books, including the foundations tutorial text
Learning Python,
whose latest editions similarly cover both Python 3.X and 2.X.
Because it covers both Python 2.X and 3.X, this book also applies to
both the prior and current editions
Programming Python, whose applications
focus serves as a follow-up to Learning Python.
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