Programming Python, with CD

Mark Lutz9780596000851, 0-596-00085-5

Programming Python demonstrates advanced applications of the increasingly popular object-oriented scripting language that’s freely available on the Web. Hundreds of thousands of developers around the world use Python for Internet scripting, systems programming, user interfaces, product customization, and more. The Python interpreter is available on most popular Unix platforms, Linux, Windows and the Mac. This book is the most comprehensive resource for advanced Python programmers available today. It focuses on real-world Python applications and has been reviewed and endorsed by Python creator Guido van Rossum, who also provides the foreword. Updated for Python 2.0, this edition is really 4 books in one, with in-depth coverage of Internet scripting, systems programming, Tkinter GUIs, and C integration domains. An appendix contains recent Python changes, and there’s a platform-neutral CD-ROM with book examples and Python-related packages, including the full Python 2.0 source code distribution.