Quick Python 3: Quick Programming

Cover....-1 Half Title....2 Title Page....4 Copyright Page....5 Dedication....6 Contents....8 Author....12 Preface....14 Chapter 1. The Absolute Bare Minimum....16 1.1 Python and IDEs....16 1.2 IDLE....17 1.3 Variables....18 1.4 Important Data Types....18 1.5 Basic Arithmetic....19 1.6 Comparisons....21 1.7 Booleans....21 1.8 Lists....22 1.9 Strings....23 1.10 Comments....24 1.11 Statement Types....24 1.11.1 Assignment Statements....25 1.11.2 Print "Statements"....25 1.11.3 If Statements....26 1.11.4 While Loops....26 1.11.5 For Loops....27 1.11.6 Import Statements....28 1.12 Input from the User....29 1.13 Functions....29 1.14 Syntax....30 1.15 Order of Execution....31 1.16 Summary....31 1.17 Wait, That's It?....32 Chapter 2. Better Tools....34 2.1 Object Notation....34 2.2 Lists....35 2.3 Tuples....37 2.4 Sets....38 2.5 Dictionaries....40 2.6 String Methods....42 2.7 Loops for Objects....43 2.7.1 Looping over Lists....43 2.7.2 Looping over Sets....44 2.7.3 Looping over Dictionaries....44 2.8 Handing Exceptions....45 2.9 Type Conversions....48 2.10 Scope....49 2.11 File I/O....51 2.12 Pickling....53 Chapter 3. Classes....54 3.1 Classes and Inheritance....54 3.2 Constructors and Self....56 3.3 Subclasses....59 3.4 Printing Objects....60 3.5 Comparing Objects....62 3.6 Bindings....63 3.7 Shallow and Deep Copies....65 Chapter 4. Getting Fancy....68 4.1 Statements....68 4.2 Identifiers....71 4.3 Type Hints....72 4.4 Numbers....73 4.5 Strings....74 4.6 F-Strings....75 4.7 Bit Operations....76 4.8 List Comprehensions....77 4.9 Iterators....78 4.10 Generators....81 4.11 Parameters and Arguments....83 4.12 Functional Programming....84 Chapter 5. Testing....88 5.1 Philosophy....89 5.2 Doctest....90 5.3 Unit Testing....92 5.4 Unit Test Example....95 5.5 Test Suites....96 Chapter 6. Graphical User Interfaces....98 6.1 Dialogs....98 6.2 Tkinter....99 6.3 Creating Widgets....100 6.4 Putting Widgets into the GUI....102 6.5 Tkinter Example....104 Afterword....106 Appendix A. String Methods....108 Appendix B. Numerical Functions....112 Appendix C. Statistics....116 Appendix D. Functions on Iterables....118 Appendix E. Operating System Commands....120 Appendix F. Unit Test Methods....122 Index....124