Overview

A Tour of Python

  • A Brief Tutorial
  • Lexical Conventions and Syntax
  • Types and Objects
  • Operators and Expressions
  • Control Flow
  • Functions
  • Classes and O-O Programming
  • Modules and Packages
  • I/O
  • Useful library modules

This is mostly a language tutorial

  • Details of various library modules can be found in the Advanced Tutorial
  • No coverage of third-party extensions (XML, GUI, etc...).
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