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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. The book is now complete, but feedback is always welcome.

Table of Contents (expand)

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  1. What’s New in “Dive Into Python 3”
  2. Installing Python
  3. Your First Python Program
  4. Native Datatypes
  5. Comprehensions
  6. Strings
  7. Regular Expressions
  8. Closures & Generators
  9. Classes & Iterators
  10. Advanced Iterators
  11. Unit Testing
  12. Refactoring
  13. Files
  14. XML
  15. Serializing Python Objects
  16. HTTP Web Services
  17. Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3
  18. Packaging Python Libraries
  19. Porting Code to Python 3 with 2to3
  20. Special Method Names
  21. Where to Go From Here
  22. Troubleshooting

The book is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. You can download it as HTML or PDF. Über-geeks can also clone the Mercurial repository:

you@localhost:~$ hg clone http://hg.diveintopython3.org/ diveintopython3

© 2001–10 Mark Pilgrim

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