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Dive Into Python 3

Dive Into Python 3 covers Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. Compared to Dive Into Python, it’s about 20% revised and 80% new material. The book is now complete, but feedback is always welcome.

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-1. What’s New in “Dive Into Python 3”
0. Installing Python
1. Your First Python Program
2. Native Datatypes
3. Comprehensions
4. Strings
5. Regular Expressions
6. Closures & Generators
7. Classes & Iterators
8. Advanced Iterators
9. Unit Testing
10. Refactoring
11. Files
12. XML
13. Serializing Python Objects
14. HTTP Web Services
15. Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3
16. Packaging Python Libraries
17. Porting Code to Python 3 with 2to3
18. Special Method Names
19. Where to Go From Here
20. Troubleshooting

The book is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. You can download it as HTML or PDF. Über-geeks can also clone the Git repository:

you@localhost:~$ git clone git://github.com/diveintomark/diveintopython3.git

© 2001–11 Mark Pilgrim

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