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Python 2.4.4 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.4 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutori...
Download Python 2.4.4 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 3639K 1366K PDF (US-Letter) 5314K 5242K PDF (A4) 5293K 5220K PostScript (US-Letter) 2280K 1656K PostScript (A4) 2285K 1660K GNU Info 932K LaTeX 1915K 1334K Contents These archives conta...
Python 2.5 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutorial...
Download Python 2.5 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4001K 1526K PDF (US-Letter) 5495K 5417K PDF (A4) 5465K 5491K PostScript (US-Letter) 2427K 1771K PostScript (A4) 2433K 1774K LaTeX 1910K 1333K Contents These archives contain the following documen...
Python 2.5.2 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutori...
Download Python 2.5.2 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4.0M 1.6M PDF (US-Letter) 5.3M 5.3M PDF (A4) 5.3M 5.3M PostScript (US-Letter) 2.5M 1.8M PostScript (A4) 2.5M 1.8M LaTeX 1.9M 1.3M Contents These archives contain the following documents: What'...
Python 2.5.3 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutori...
Download Python 2.5.3 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4.0M 1.6M PDF (US-Letter) 5.3M 5.3M PDF (A4) 5.3M 5.3M PostScript (US-Letter) 2.5M 1.8M PostScript (A4) 2.5M 1.8M Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2...
Python 2.5.4 Documentation Download all these documents (Many formats are available, including typeset versions for printing.) Locate previous versions What's New in Python 2.5 (changes since previous major release) Tutorial (start here) Global Module Index (for quick access to all modules) Library Reference (keep this under your pillow) Macintosh Library Modules (this too, if you use a Macintosh) Language Reference (for language lawyers) Extending and Embedding (tutori...
Download Python 2.5.4 Documentation To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes. Content Format ZIP BZip2 HTML 4.0M 1.6M PDF (US-Letter) 5.3M 5.3M PDF (A4) 5.3M 5.3M PostScript (US-Letter) 2.5M 1.8M PostScript (A4) 2.5M 1.8M Contents These archives contain the following documents: What's New in Python 2...
Python Copyright Python Copyright Historical note: This page describes the Python license used for Python versions up to and including Python 1.6a2. CNRI released Python 1.6b1 and the final Python 1.6 release under a different license, which is open source compliant, but not compatible with the GPL (the only incompatibility being the inclusion of a choice-of-law clause). More recent PSF releases, in particular 2.0.1, 2.1.1, and all releases since then, are GPL-compatible. Most P...
Python Documentation Index Python Essays In this directory I place short essays (anything from 500 to 5000 words) on various Python subjects. See also a collection of presentations I have given. See also my blog at blogspot.com and my previous blog at artima.com. --Guido van Rossum Table of contents (in mostly chronological order) Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2 (See below) Foreword for "Programming Python" (1st ed.) Written in 1996, this gives an overview of the earl...
What is Python? Executive Summary What is Python? Executive Summary Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Its high-level built in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for Rapid Application Development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together. Python's simple, easy to learn syntax emphasizes readability and therefore r...
Proposed Improvements to Module Cleanup Proposed Improvements to Module Cleanup I'm experimenting with a better way of cleaning up at the end of an execution run. Without implementing true GC, I can never do it 100% right, but I can implement a predictable set of rules based on practical observation that will solve most problems that are actually observed. Here's my proposal. At the end of this message I list some potential problems with the proposal and ask for feedback. This wi...
Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) Foreword for "Programming Python" (2nd ed.) This is the foreword I wrote for Mark Lutz' book "Programming Python" (2nd ed.), published by O'Reilly in 2001. Less than five years ago, I wrote the foreword for the 1st edition of Programming Python. Since then, the book has changed about as much as the language and the Python community! I no longer feel the need to defend Python: the statistics and developments listed in Mark's ...
Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5 Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5 (updated for Python 1.5.2 -baw) User-defined Python exceptions can be either strings or Python classes. Since classes have many nice properties when used as exceptions, it is desirable to migrate to a situation where classes are used exclusively. Prior to Python 1.5 alpha 4, Python's standard exceptions (IOError, TypeError, etc.) were defined as strings. Changing these to classes posed some particula...
Python Style Guide Python Style Guide Author: Guido van Rossum The style guide originally at this URL has been turned into two PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals): PEP 8 for the main text, and PEP 257 for docstring conventions.
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