"Covers Python 2.7 & 3.5 with 3.6 highlights"--Page 1 of cover
Includes bibliographical references )pages 14-18( and index
Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, and Steve Holden
Third edition
Introduction to Python -- The Python interpreter -- The Python language -- Object-oriented Python -- Exceptions -- Modules -- Core built-ins and standard library modules -- Strings and things -- Regular expressions -- File and text operations -- Persistence and databases -- Time operations -- Controlling execution -- Threads and processes -- Numeric processing -- testing, debugging, and optimizing -- Network basics -- Asynchronous alternatives -- Client-side network protocol modules -- Serving HTTP -- Email, MIME, and other network encodings -- Structured text: HTML -- Structured text: XML -- Extending and embedding classic Python -- Distributing extensions and programs -- v2/v3 migration and coexistence