本书是Python开发者的完全指南——针对 Python 2.5全面升级
·学习专业的Python风格、最佳实践和好的编程习惯；
·加强对Python对象、内存模型和Python面向对象特性的深入理解；
·构建更有效的Web、CGI、互联网、网络和其他客户端/服务器架构应用程序及软件；
·学习如何使用Python中的Tkinter和其他工具来开发自己的GUI应用程序及软件；
·通过用C等语言编写扩展来提升Python应用程序的性能，或者通过使用多线程增强I/0相关的应用程序的能力；
·学习Python中有关数据库的API，以及如何在Python中使用各种不同的数据库系统，包括MySQL、Postgres和 SQLite。

本书不仅适合初级Web开发人员学习阅读，更是Python程序员用来学习高级Web开发技术的优秀参考书。
• 学习Flask应用的基本结构，编写示例应用；
• 使用必备的组件，包括模板、数据库、Web表单和电子邮件支持；
• 使用包和模块构建可伸缩的大型应用；
• 实现用户认证、角色和个人资料；
• 在博客网站中重用模板、分页显示列表以及使用富文本；
• 使用基于Flask的REST式API，在智能手机、平板电脑和其他第三方客户端上实现可用功能；
• 学习运行单元测试以及提升性能；
• 将Web应用部署到生产服务器。

If you want to write efficient, high-quality code that's easily integrated with other languages and tools, this hands-on book will help you be productive with Python quickly. Learning Python, Fifth Edition, is an easy-to-follow, self-paced tutorial based on author and Python expert Mark Lutz's popular training course. You'll find lots of annotated examples and illustrations to help you get started with Python 2.7 and 3.3. Each chapter contains a standalone lesson on a key component of the language. Learn about Python's major built-in object types such as numbers, lists, and dictionaries Create and process objects using Python statements, and learn Python's general syntax model Structure and reuse code with Python's basic procedural tool Learn about Python modules: packages of statements, functions, and other tools organized into larger components Discover Python's object-oriented programming tool for structuring code Learn about the exception-handling model and development tools for writing larger programs Explore advanced Python tools, including decorators, descriptors, metaclasses, and Unicode processing

Python is a new and innovative scripting language. It is set to replace Perl as the programming language of choice for shell scripters, and for serious application developers who want a feature-rich, yet simple language to deploy their products.
Dive Into Python is a hands-on guide to the Python language. 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 is the perfect resource for you if you like to jump into languages fast and get going right away. If youre just starting to learn Python, first pick up a copy of Magnus Lie Hetland's Practical Python.

Master Python and become a programmer-even if you never thought you could! This breakthrough book and CD can help practically anyone get started in programming. It's called "The Hard Way," but it's really quite simple. What's "hard" is this: it requires discipline, practice, and persistence. Zed A. Shaw teaches the Python programming language through a series of 52 brilliantly-crafted exercises-all formatted consistently, and most no longer than two pages (including "extra credit"). Just read each exercise, type in its sample code precisely (no copy-and-paste!), and make the programs run. As you read, type, fix your mistakes, and watch the results, you'll learn how software works, how programming works, what good programs look like, and how to read, write, and see code. You'll discover how to spot crucial differences that fundamentally affect program behavior, and you'll learn everything you need to know about Python logic, input/output, variables, and functions. Above all, you'll learn the attention to detail that is indispensable to successful programming (and so much else in life). At first, yes, it can be difficult. But it gets easier. And Shaw offers plenty of extra guidance and insight through 5+ full hours of teaching video on the accompanying CD. As Shaw's thousands of online readers and fans will attest, the moment will come when you just "get it"-and that moment feels great. Nothing important comes without discipline, practice, and persistence. But, with Learn Python the Hard Way, readers who bring those qualities to programming will master it-and they will reap the rewards, both personally and in their careers.