Python In A Hurry

This is Python in a Hurry, or more fully, Python in a Hurry for Experienced Programmers. It is a quick introduction to Python for people who have programmed in other languages.

Python in a Hurry:

• will teach you enough Python to be productive.
• will do it quickly.

On the other hand, Python in a Hurry won’t do everything:

• it will not be exhaustive, showing Python esoterica that will slow down your learning.
• it will not give you a deep understanding of the subtleties of Python.
• it will not try to convince you that Python is the best, or even a good, programming language, though it is!
• it will not waste your time.

Contents

• Preliminaries
  • Python 2 or Python 3?
• First Look
  • Program text
  • Types
  • Interactive Interpreter
  • Files
• Names & Values
  • Names
  • Values & Types
  • Assignment
• Strings
  • Bytes and Unicode
  • Substrings
  • String operations
• Lists
  • Tuples
  • Iteration
• Dictionaries
• Control Flow
  • Conditionals
  • Truthiness
  • Looping
• Functions
  • Defining Functions
  • Defaults
  • Calling Functions
  • Functions as Values
  • Lambdas
• Exceptions
• Objects
• Classes
  • Basics
  • Access control
  • Inheritance
  • Invoking overridden methods
  • Special methods
• Standard Library
• Third-Party Tools
  • pip
  • PyPI
  • Virtualenv
  • Popular third-party libraries
• What Next?
• About PyHurry

Todo

• None, booleans, numbers
• tuple unpacking assignment
• string formatting
• print
• community?
• packaging?
• testing?