Programming Python

Buttons and Callbacks
- Adding User-Defined Callback Handlers
- Adding Multiple Widgets
- Customizing Widgets with Classes
- Reusable GUI Components with Classes
- The End of the Tutorial
- Python/Tkinter for Tcl/Tk Converts
9. A Tkinter Tour,
Part 1
- "Widgets and Gadgets and GUIs, Oh My!"
- Configuring Widget Appearance
- Top-Level Windows
- Dialogs
- Binding Events
- Message and Entry
- Checkbutton, Radiobutton, and Scale
- Running GUI Code Three Ways
- Images
- Viewing and Processing Images with PIL
10. A Tkinter Tour,
Part 2
- "On Today's Menu: Spam, Spam, and Spam"
- Menus
- Listboxes and Scrollbars
- Text
- Canvas
- Grids
- Time Tools, Threads, and Animation
- The End of the Tour
- The PyDemos and PyGadgets Launchers
11. GUI Coding Techniques
- "Building a Better Mouse Trap"
- GuiMixin: Common Tool Mixin Classes
- GuiMaker: Automating Menus and Toolbars
- ShellGui: GUIs for Command-Line Tools
- GuiStreams: Redirecting Streams to Widgets
- Reloading Callback Handlers Dynamically
- Wrapping Up Top-Level Window Interfaces
- GUIs, Threads, and Queues
- More Ways to Add GUIs to Non-GUI Code
12. Complete GUI Programs
- "Python, Open Source, and Camaros"
- PyEdit: A Text Editor Program/Object
- PyPhoto: An Image Viewer and Resizer
- PyView: An Image and Notes Slideshow
- PyDraw: Painting and Moving Graphics
- PyClock: An Analog/Digital Clock Widget
- PyToe: A Tic-Tac-Toe Game Widget
- Where to Go from Here

Part IV. Internet Programming
13. Network Scripting
- "Tune In, Log On, and Drop Out"
- Plumbing the Internet
- Socket Programming
- Handling Multiple Clients
- A Simple Python File Server
14. Client-Side Scripting
- "Socket to Me!"
- FTP: Transferring Files over the Net
- Processing Internet Email
- POP: Fetching Email
- SMTP: Sending Email
- email: Parsing and Composing Mails
- pymail: A Console-Based Email Client
- The mailtools Utility Package
- NNTP: Accessing Newsgroups
- HTTP: Accessing Web Sites
- Module urllib Revisited
- Other Client-Side Scripting Options
15. The PyMailGUI Client
- "Use the Source, Luke"
- A PyMailGUI Demo
- PyMailGUI Implementation
16. Server-Side Scripting
- "Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave"
- What's a Server-Side CGI Script?
- Running Server-Side Examples
- Climbing the CGI Learning Curve
- Saving State Information in CGI Scripts
- The Hello World Selector
- Refactoring Code for Maintainability
- More on HTML and URL Escapes
- Transferring Files to Clients and Servers
17. The PyMailCGI Server
- "Things to Do When Visiting Chicago"
- The PyMailCGI Web Site
- The Root Page
- Sending Mail by SMTP
- Reading POP Email
- Processing Fetched Mail
- Utility Modules
- CGI Script Trade-Offs
18. Advanced Internet Topics
- "Surfing on the Shoulders of Giants"
- Zope: A Web Application Framework
- HTMLgen: Web Pages from Objects
- Jython: Python for Java
- Grail: A Python-Based Web Browser
- XML Processing Tools
- Windows Web Scripting Extensions
- Python Server Pages
- Rolling Your Own Servers in Python
- And Other Cool Stuff

Part V. Tools and Techniques
19. Databases and Persistence
- "Give Me an Order of Persistence, but Hold the Pickles"
- Persistence Options in Python
- DBM Files
- Pickled Objects
- Shelve Files
- The ZODB Object-Oriented Database
- SQL Database Interfaces
- PyForm: A Persistent Object Viewer
20. Data Structures
- "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue; Lists Are Mutable, and So Is Set Foo"
- Implementing Stacks
- Implementing Sets
- Subclassing Built-In Types
- Binary Search Trees
- Graph Searching
- Reversing Sequences
- Permuting Sequences
- Sorting Sequences
- Data Structures Versus Python Built-Ins
- PyTree: A Generic Tree Object Viewer
21. Text and Language
- "See Jack Hack. Hack, Jack, Hack"
- Strategies for Parsing Text in Python
- String Method Utilities
- Regular Expression Pattern Matching
- Advanced Language Tools
- Handcoded Parsers
- PyCalc: A Calculator Program/Object

Part VI. Integration
22. Extending Python
- "I Am Lost at C"
- Integration Modes
- C Extensions Overview
- A Simple C Extension Module
- Extension Module Details
- The SWIG Integration Code Generator
- Wrapping C Environment Calls
- A C Extension Module String Stack
- A C Extension Type String Stack
- Wrapping C++ Classes with SWIG
- Other Extending Tools
23. Embedding Python
- "Add Python. Mix Well. Repeat."
- C Embedding API Overview
- Basic Embedding Techniques
- Registering Callback Handler Objects
- Using Python Classes in C
- A High-Level Embedding API: ppembed
- Other Integration Topics

Part VII. The End
24. Conclusion: Python and the Development Cycle
- "That's the End of the Book, Now Here's the Meaning of Life"
- "Something's Wrong with the Way We Program Computers"
- The "Gilligan Factor"
- Doing the Right Thing
- Enter Python
- But What About That Bottleneck?
- On Sinking the Titanic
- So What's "Python: The Sequel"?
- In the Final Analysis . . .
- Postscript to the Second Edition (2000)
- Postscript to the Third Edition (2006)

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