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Using the Python Interpreter</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node4.html#SECTION004100000000000000000">2.1 Invoking the Interpreter</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node4.html#SECTION004110000000000000000">2.1.1 Argument Passing</a> <LI><A href="node4.html#SECTION004120000000000000000">2.1.2 Interactive Mode</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node4.html#SECTION004200000000000000000">2.2 The Interpreter and Its Environment</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node4.html#SECTION004210000000000000000">2.2.1 Error Handling</a> <LI><A href="node4.html#SECTION004220000000000000000">2.2.2 Executable Python Scripts</a> <LI><A href="node4.html#SECTION004230000000000000000">2.2.3 Source Code Encoding</a> <LI><A href="node4.html#SECTION004240000000000000000">2.2.4 The Interactive Startup File</a> </ul> </ul> <LI><A href="node5.html">3. An Informal Introduction to Python</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node5.html#SECTION005100000000000000000">3.1 Using Python as a Calculator</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node5.html#SECTION005110000000000000000">3.1.1 Numbers</a> <LI><A href="node5.html#SECTION005120000000000000000">3.1.2 Strings</a> <LI><A href="node5.html#SECTION005130000000000000000">3.1.3 Unicode Strings</a> <LI><A href="node5.html#SECTION005140000000000000000">3.1.4 Lists</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node5.html#SECTION005200000000000000000">3.2 First Steps Towards Programming</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node6.html">4. More Control Flow Tools</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006100000000000000000">4.1 if Statements</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006200000000000000000">4.2 for Statements</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006300000000000000000">4.3 The range() Function</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006400000000000000000">4.4 break and continue Statements, and else Clauses on Loops</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006500000000000000000">4.5 pass Statements</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006600000000000000000">4.6 Defining Functions</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006700000000000000000">4.7 More on Defining Functions</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006710000000000000000">4.7.1 Default Argument Values</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006720000000000000000">4.7.2 Keyword Arguments</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006730000000000000000">4.7.3 Arbitrary Argument Lists</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006740000000000000000">4.7.4 Unpacking Argument Lists</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006750000000000000000">4.7.5 Lambda Forms</a> <LI><A href="node6.html#SECTION006760000000000000000">4.7.6 Documentation Strings</a> </ul> </ul> <LI><A href="node7.html">5. Data Structures</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007100000000000000000">5.1 More on Lists</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007110000000000000000">5.1.1 Using Lists as Stacks</a> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007120000000000000000">5.1.2 Using Lists as Queues</a> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007130000000000000000">5.1.3 Functional Programming Tools</a> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007140000000000000000">5.1.4 List Comprehensions</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007200000000000000000">5.2 The del statement</a> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007300000000000000000">5.3 Tuples and Sequences</a> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007400000000000000000">5.4 Dictionaries</a> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007500000000000000000">5.5 Looping Techniques</a> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007600000000000000000">5.6 More on Conditions</a> <LI><A href="node7.html#SECTION007700000000000000000">5.7 Comparing Sequences and Other Types</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node8.html">6. Modules</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008100000000000000000">6.1 More on Modules</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008110000000000000000">6.1.1 The Module Search Path</a> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008120000000000000000">6.1.2 ``Compiled'' Python files</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008200000000000000000">6.2 Standard Modules</a> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008300000000000000000">6.3 The dir() Function</a> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008400000000000000000">6.4 Packages</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008410000000000000000">6.4.1 Importing * From a Package</a> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008420000000000000000">6.4.2 Intra-package References</a> <LI><A href="node8.html#SECTION008430000000000000000">6.4.3 Packages in Multiple Directories</a> </ul> </ul> <LI><A href="node9.html">7. Input and Output</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node9.html#SECTION009100000000000000000">7.1 Fancier Output Formatting</a> <LI><A href="node9.html#SECTION009200000000000000000">7.2 Reading and Writing Files</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node9.html#SECTION009210000000000000000">7.2.1 Methods of File Objects</a> <LI><A href="node9.html#SECTION009220000000000000000">7.2.2 The pickle Module</a> </ul> </ul> <LI><A href="node10.html">8. Errors and Exceptions</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node10.html#SECTION0010100000000000000000">8.1 Syntax Errors</a> <LI><A href="node10.html#SECTION0010200000000000000000">8.2 Exceptions</a> <LI><A href="node10.html#SECTION0010300000000000000000">8.3 Handling Exceptions</a> <LI><A href="node10.html#SECTION0010400000000000000000">8.4 Raising Exceptions</a> <LI><A href="node10.html#SECTION0010500000000000000000">8.5 User-defined Exceptions</a> <LI><A href="node10.html#SECTION0010600000000000000000">8.6 Defining Clean-up Actions</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node11.html">9. Classes</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011100000000000000000">9.1 A Word About Terminology</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011200000000000000000">9.2 Python Scopes and Name Spaces</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011300000000000000000">9.3 A First Look at Classes</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011310000000000000000">9.3.1 Class Definition Syntax</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011320000000000000000">9.3.2 Class Objects</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011330000000000000000">9.3.3 Instance Objects</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011340000000000000000">9.3.4 Method Objects</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011400000000000000000">9.4 Random Remarks</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011500000000000000000">9.5 Inheritance</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011510000000000000000">9.5.1 Multiple Inheritance</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011600000000000000000">9.6 Private Variables</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011700000000000000000">9.7 Odds and Ends</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011800000000000000000">9.8 Exceptions Are Classes Too</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION0011900000000000000000">9.9 Iterators</a> <LI><A href="node11.html#SECTION00111000000000000000000">9.10 Generators</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node12.html">10. Brief Tour of the Standard Library</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012100000000000000000">10.1 Operating System Interface</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012200000000000000000">10.2 File Wildcards</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012300000000000000000">10.3 Command Line Arguments</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012400000000000000000">10.4 Error Output Redirection and Program Termination</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012500000000000000000">10.5 String Pattern Matching</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012600000000000000000">10.6 Mathematics</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012700000000000000000">10.7 Internet Access</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012800000000000000000">10.8 Dates and Times</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION0012900000000000000000">10.9 Data Compression</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION00121000000000000000000">10.10 Performance Measurement</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION00121100000000000000000">10.11 Quality Control</a> <LI><A href="node12.html#SECTION00121200000000000000000">10.12 Batteries Included</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node13.html">11. What Now?</a> <LI><A href="node14.html">A. Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node14.html#SECTION0014100000000000000000">A.1 Line Editing</a> <LI><A href="node14.html#SECTION0014200000000000000000">A.2 History Substitution</a> <LI><A href="node14.html#SECTION0014300000000000000000">A.3 Key Bindings</a> <LI><A href="node14.html#SECTION0014400000000000000000">A.4 Commentary</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node15.html">B. Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node15.html#SECTION0015100000000000000000">B.1 Representation Error</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node16.html">C. History and License</a> <UL> <LI><A href="node16.html#SECTION0016100000000000000000">C.1 History of the software</a> <LI><A href="node16.html#SECTION0016200000000000000000">C.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python</a> </ul> <LI><A href="node17.html">D. 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