Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python 3 is a hands-on guide to Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. As in the original book, Dive Into Python, each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end.

This book includes:

• Example programs completely rewritten to illustrate powerful new concepts now available in Python 3: sets, iterators, generators, closures, comprehensions, and much more
• A detailed case study of porting a major library from Python 2 to Python 3
• A comprehensive appendix of all the syntactic and semantic changes in Python 3

This is the perfect resource for you if you need to port applications to Python 3, or if you like to jump into languages fast and get going right away.

Table of Contents

■Chapter 1: Your First Python Program

■Chapter 2: Native Datatypes

■Chapter 3: Comprehensions

■Chapter 4: Strings

■Chapter 5: Regular Expressions

■Chapter 6: Closures and Generators

■Chapter 7: Classes and Iterators

■Chapter 8: Advanced Iterators

■Chapter 9: Unit Testing

■Chapter 10: Refactoring

■Chapter 11: Files

■Chapter 12: XML

■Chapter 13: Serializing Python Objects

■Chapter 14: HTTP Web Services

■Chapter 15: Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3

■Chapter 16: Packaging Python Libraries

■Appendix A: Porting Code to Python 3 with 2to3

■Appendix B: Special Method Names

■Appendix C: Where to Go From Here

About the Author

Mark Pilgrim has been an advocate of open source and open standards for over 15 years. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, two children, and a floppy-eared dog.