Dive Into Python 3

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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.

## Table of Contents (expand)

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

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 Mercurial repository:

    you@localhost:~$ hg clone http://hg.diveintopython3.org/ diveintopython3

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