The Context of Software Development Software Development Tools Learning Programming with Python Writing a Python Program The Python Interactive Shell A Longer Python program Summary Exercises Values and Variables Integer and String Values Variables and Assignment Identifiers Floating-point Numbers Control Codes within Strings User Input The eval Function Controlling the print Function String Formatting Summary Exercises Expressions and Arithmetic Expressions Mixed Type Expressions Operator Precedence and Associativity Comments Errors Syntax Errors Run-time Exceptions Logic Errors Arithmetic Examples More Arithmetic Operators Algorithms Summary Exercises Conditional Execution Boolean Expressions Boolean Expressions The Simple if Statement The if/else Statement Compound Boolean Expressions The pass Statement Floating-point Equality Nested Conditionals Multi-way Decision Statements Conditional Expressions Errors in Conditional Statements Summary Exercises Iteration The while Statement Definite Loops vs. Indefinite Loops The for Statement Nested Loops Abnormal Loop Termination The break statement The continue Statement while/else and for/else Infinite Loops Iteration Examples Computing Square Root Drawing a Tree Printing Prime Numbers Insisting on the Proper Input Summary Exercises Using Functions Introduction to Using Functions Standard Mathematical Functions time Functions Random Numbers Importing Issues Summary Exercises Writing Functions Function Basics Main Function Parameter Passing Function Examples Better Organized Prime Generator Command Interpreter Restricted Input Better Die Rolling Simulator Tree Drawing Function Floating-point Equality Custom Functions vs. Standard Functions Summary Exercises More on Functions Global Variables Default Parameters Introduction to Recursion Making Functions Reusable Documenting Functions and Modules Functions as Data Lambda Expressions Generators Local Function Definitions Summary Exercises Objects Using Objects String Objects File Objects Fraction Objects Turtle Graphics Graphics with tkinter Objects Other Standard Python Objects Object Mutability and Aliasing Garbage Collection Summary Exercises Lists Using Lists List Traversal Building Lists List Membership List Assignment and Equivalence List Bounds Slicing List Element Removal Lists and Functions List Methods Prime Generation with a List Command-line Arguments List Comprehensions Summary of List Creation Techniques Lists vs. Generators Summary Exercises Sorting and Searching Sorting Flexible Sorting Faster Sorting Search Linear Search Binary Search Recursion Revisited List Permutations Randomly Permuting a List Reversing a List Summary Exercises Tuples, Dictionaries, and Sets Tuples Arbitrary Argument Lists Dictionaries Using Dictionaries Counting with Dictionaries Grouping with Dictionaries Implementing Mathematical Graphs Keyword Arguments Sets Set Quantification with all and any Summary Exercises Handling Exceptions Motivation Common Standard Exceptions Handling Exceptions Handling Multiple Exceptions The Catch-all Handler Catching Exception Objects The try Statement's Optional else Block finally block Exception Handling Scope Raising Exceptions Using Exceptions Summary Exercises Custom Types Circle Objects Restricting Access to Members Bank Account Objects Stopwatch Objects Automated Testing Class Inheritance Custom Exceptions Summary Exercises Index
