Table of Contents

Part I - The Python Language

Chapter 1 - Installing Python

Chapter 2 - Python Editors

Chapter 3 - Documenting Your Code

Chapter 4 - Working with Strings

Chapter 5 - Numeric Types

Chapter 6 - Learning About Lists

Chapter 7 - Learning About Tuples

Chapter 8 - Learning About Dictionaries

Chapter 9 - Learning About Sets

Chapter 10 - Boolean Operations and None

Chapter 11 - Conditional Statements

Chapter 12 - Learning About Loops

Chapter 13 - Python Comprehensions

Chapter 14 - Exception Handling

Chapter 15 - Working with Files

Chapter 16 - Importing

Chapter 17 - Functions

Chapter 18 - Classes

Part II - Beyond the Basics

Chapter 19 - Introspection

Chapter 20 - Installing Packages with pip

Chapter 21 - Python Virtual Environments

Chapter 22 - Type Checking in Python

Chapter 23 - Creating Multiple Threads

Chapter 24 - Creating Multiple Processes

Chapter 25 - Launching Subprocesses with Python

Chapter 26 - Debugging Your Code with pdb

Chapter 27 - Learning About Decorators

Chapter 28 - Assignment Expressions

Chapter 29 - Profiling Your Code

Chapter 30 - An Introduction to Testing

Chapter 31 - Learning About the Jupyter Notebook

Part III - Practical Python

Chapter 32 - How to Create a Command-line Application with argparse

Chapter 33 - How to Parse XML

Chapter 34 - How to Parse JSON

Chapter 35 - How to Scrape a Website

Chapter 36 - How to Work with CSV files

Chapter 37 - How to Work with a Database Using sqlite3

Chapter 38 - Working with an Excel Document in Python

Chapter 39 - How to Generate a PDF

Chapter 40 - How to Create Graphs

Chapter 41 - How to Work with Images in Python

Chapter 42 - How to Create a Graphical User Interface

Part IV - Distributing Your Code

Chapter 43 - How to Create a Python Package

Chapter 44 - How to Create an Exe for Windows

Chapter 45 - How to Create an Installer for Windows

Chapter 46 - How to Create an "exe" for Mac

Afterword

Appendix A - Version Control

Appendix B - Version Control with Git

About the Author

Michael Driscoll has been programming with the Python language since 2006. He has been writing about Python on his blog, "The Mouse Vs. The Python", and is a member of the Python Software Foundation. He has co-authored "Core Python Cheatsheet" for DZone and is a regular contributor to the Real Python website. He has also been a technical reviewer for Python books from Packt Publishing and No Starch Press.

Michael has written several books on Python and wxPython. He also recently released a complete rewrite of Python 101 and has a couple more books in the pipeline

Michael enjoys photography, a wide variety of music, and learning more about Christian apologetics.