Python 1.0.1 on Python One

Tutorial

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whetting Your Appetite#

If you ever wrote a large shell script, you probably know this feeling: you’d love to add yet another feature, but it’s already so slow, and so big, and so complicated; or the feature involves a system call or other function that is only accessible from C …Usually the problem at hand isn’t serious enough to warrant rewriting the script in C; perhaps because the problem requires variable-length strings or other data types (like sorted lists of file names) that are easy in the shell but lots of work to implement in C; or perhaps just because you’re not sufficiently familiar with C.

Library Reference

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction#

The Python library consists of three parts, with different levels of integration with the interpreter. Closest to the interpreter are built-in types, exceptions and functions. Next are built-in modules, which are written in C and linked statically with the interpreter. Finally there are standard modules that are implemented entirely in Python, but are always available. For efficiency, some standard modules may become built-in modules in future versions of the interpreter.

Language Reference

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction#

This reference manual describes the Python programming language. It is not intended as a tutorial.

While I am trying to be as precise as possible, I chose to use English rather than formal specifications for everything except syntax and lexical analysis. This should make the document better understandable to the average reader, but will leave room for ambiguities. Consequently, if you were coming from Mars and tried to re-implement Python from this document alone, you might have to guess things and in fact you would probably end up implementing quite a different language. On the other hand, if you are using Python and wonder what the precise rules about a particular area of the language are, you should definitely be able to find them here.

Extending and Embedding

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000