Part I: General Application Topics
Chapter 1: Regular Expressions
1.1 Introduction/Motivation
1.2 Special Symbols and Characters
1.3 Regexes and Python
1.4 Some Regex Examples
1.5 A Longer Regex Example
1.6 Exercises
Chapter 2: Network Programming
2.1 Introduction
2.2 What Is Client/Server Architecture?
2.3 Sockets: Communication Endpoints
2.4 Network Programming in Python
2.5 The SocketServer Module
2.6 Introduction to the Twisted Framework
2.7 Related Modules
2.8 Exercises
Chapter 3: Internet Client Programming
3.1 What Are Internet Clients?
3.2 Transferring Files
3.3 Network News
3.4 E-Mail
3.5 Related Modules
3.6 Exercises
Chapter 4: Multithreaded Programming
4.1 Introduction/Motivation
4.2 Threads and Processes
4.3 -Threads and Python
4.4 The thread Module
4.5 The threading Module
4.6 Comparing Single vs. Multithreaded Execution
4.7 Multithreading in Practice
4.8 Producer-Consumer Problem and the Queue/queue Module
4.9 Alternative Considerations to Threads
4.10 Related Modules
4.11 Exercises
Chapter 5: GUI Programming
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Tkinter and Python Programming
5.3 Tkinter Examples
5.4 A Brief Tour of Other GUIs
5.5 Related Modules and Other GUIs
5.6 Exercises
Chapter 6: Database Programming
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Python DB-API
6.3 ORMs
6.4 Non-Relational Databases
6.5 Related References
6.6 Exercises
Chapter 7: Programming Microsoft Office
7.1 Introduction
7.2 COM Client Programming with Python
7.3 Introductory Examples
7.4 Intermediate Examples
7.5 Related Modules/Packages
7.6 Exercises
Chapter 8: Extending Python
8.1 Introduction/Motivation
8.2 Extending Python by Writing Extensions
8.3 Related Topics
8.4 Exercises
Part II: Web Development
Chapter 9: Web Clients and Servers
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Python Web Client Tools
9.3 Web Clients
9.4 Web (HTTP) Servers
9.5 Related Modules
9.6 Exercises
Chapter 10: Web Programming: CGI and WSGI
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Helping Web Servers Process Client Data
10.3 Building CGI Applications
10.4 Using Unicode with CGI
10.5 Advanced CGI
10.6 Introduction to WSGI
10.7 Real-World Web Development
10.8 Related Modules
10.9 Exercises
Chapter 11: Web Frameworks: Django
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Web Frameworks
11.3 Introduction to Django
11.4 Projects and Apps
11.5 Your “Hello World” Application (A Blog)
11.6 Creating a Model to Add Database Service
11.7 The Python Application Shell
11.8 The Django Administration App
11.9 Creating the Blog’s User Interface
11.10 Improving the Output
11.11 Working with User Input
11.12 Forms and Model Forms
11.13 More About Views
11.14 Look-and-Feel Improvements
11.15 Unit Testing
11.16 An Intermediate Django App: The Tweet Approver
11.17 Resources
11.18 Conclusion
11.19 Exercises
Chapter 12: Cloud Computing: Google App Engine
12.1 Introduction
12.2 What Is Cloud Computing?
12.3 The Sandbox and the App Engine SDK
12.4 Choosing an App Engine Framework
12.5 Python 2.7 Support
12.6 Comparisons to Django
12.7 Morphing “Hello World” into a Simple Blog
12.8 Adding Memcache Service
12.9 Static Files
12.10 Adding Users Service
12.11 Remote API Shell
12.12 Lightning Round (with Python Code)
12.13 Sending Instant Messages by Using XMPP
12.14 Processing Images
12.15 Task Queues (Unscheduled Tasks)
12.16 Profiling with Appstats
12.17 The URLfetch Service
12.18 Lightning Round (without Python Code)
12.19 Vendor Lock-In
12.20 Resources
12.21 Conclusion
12.22 Exercises
Chapter 13: Web Services
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Yahoo! Finance Stock Quote Server
13.3 Microblogging with Twitter
13.4 Exercises
Part III: Supplemental/Experimental
Chapter 14: Text Processing
14.1 Comma-Separated Values
14.2 JavaScript Object Notation
14.3 Extensible Markup Language
14.4 References
14.5 Related Modules
14.6 Exercises
Chapter 15: Miscellaneous
15.1 Jython
15.2 Google+
15.3 Exercises
Appendix A: Answers to Selected Exercises
Appendix B: Reference Tables
Appendix C: Python 3: The Evolution of a Programming Language
Appendix D: Python 3 Migration with 2.6+

About the Author

Wesley J. Chun is the author of the bestselling Core Python titles and the Python Fundamentals LiveLessons companion video. He is coauthor of Python Web Development with Django (withdjango.com), and has written for Linux Journal, CNET, and InformIT. In addition to being an architect and Developer Advocate at Google, he runs CyberWeb (cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python engineering and technical training. He has more than twenty-five years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in computer science, mathematics, and music from the University of California.

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