Python Mini Reference 2022: A Quick Guide to the Modern Python Programming Language for Busy Coders (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Modern Programming Languages Book 3)

211 Pages·2022·1.194 MB·

by  Harry Yoon

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Python Programs
2.1. File/Text Input
2.2. Interactive Mode
3. Program Execution
3.1. Code Blocks
3.2. Name Binding
3.3. Scope
3.3.1. Function definition block
3.3.2. Class definition block
3.3.3. The global declaration
3.3.4. The nonlocal declaration
3.4. Scope Examples (Optional)
3.5. Program Start and Termination
3.6. Exceptions
4. Packages & Modules
4.1. Modules
4.1.1. The import statement
4.2. Packages
4.2.1. Regular packages
4.2.2. Namespace packages
4.3. Package Relative Imports
5. Python Source Code
5.1. Line Structure
5.1.1. Logical lines
5.1.2. Physical lines
5.1.3. Comments
5.1.4. Blank Lines
5.1.5. Physical line joining
5.1.6. Indentations
5.2. Tokens
5.3. Identifiers and Keywords
5.3.1. Keywords
5.3.2. Reserved classes of identifiers
5.4. Literals
5.4.1. String and bytes literals
5.4.2. Formatted string literals
5.4.3. String literal concatenation
5.4.4. Numeric literals
5.5. Compound Type Literals
5.6. Operators
5.7. Delimiters
6. Objects
6.1. Identities
6.2. Attributes
6.3. Types
6.4. Builtin type Function
6.5. Mutable vs Immutable Types
6.6. Constructors
6.7. Boolean Context
6.8. Lifetime of an Object
7. Simple Types
7.1. None
7.2. NotImplemented
7.3. Ellipsis
7.4. Numbers
7.4.1. Integers (numbers.Integral)
7.4.2. Real numbers (numbers.Real)
7.4.3. Complex numbers (numbers.Complex)
8. Compound Types
8.1. Tuples, Lists, Sets, and Dictionaries
8.1.1. Constructors
8.1.2. Literal syntax
8.1.3. Comprehensions
8.2. Sequences
8.2.1. Sequence unpacking
8.3. Immutable Sequences
8.3.1. Strings
8.3.2. Tuples
8.3.3. Bytes sequences
8.4. Mutable Sequences
8.4.1. Lists
8.4.2. List comprehension
8.4.3. Byte arrays
8.5. Set Types
8.5.1. Sets
8.5.2. Set comprehension
8.5.3. Frozen sets
8.6. Mappings
8.6.1. Dictionaries
8.6.2. Dictionary comprehension
8.6.3. Element insertion/deletion
9. Expressions
9.1. Expression Lists
9.2. Evaluation Order
9.3. Assignment Expressions
9.4. Conditional Expressions
9.5. Arithmetic Conversions
9.6. Arithmetic Operations
9.6.1. Unary arithmetic operators
9.6.2. Binary arithmetic operators
9.6.3. The power operator
9.7. Bitwise Operations
9.7.1. Unary bitwise operator
9.7.2. Binary bitwise operators
9.7.3. The shift operators
9.8. Boolean Operations
9.8.1. The not operator
9.8.2. The and operator
9.8.3. The or operator
9.9. Comparisons
9.9.1. Identity comparisons
9.9.2. Value comparisons
9.9.3. Membership test operations
10. Simple Statements
10.1. Expression Statement
10.2. Assignment Statement
10.2.1. Augmented Assignment Statements
10.3. The pass Statement
10.4. The return Statement
10.5. The raise Statement
10.6. The break Statement
10.7. The continue Statement
10.8. The global Statement
10.9. The nonlocal Statement
10.10. The del Statement
10.11. The assert Statement
10.11.1. The basic form
10.11.2. The extended form
11. Compound Statements
11.1. The if - elif - else Statement
11.2. The while - else Statement
11.3. The for - in - else Statement
11.3.1. The range function
11.3.2. The enumerate function
11.4. The try Statement
11.5. The with Statement
12. Pattern Matching
12.1. The match - case Statement
12.2. Patterns
12.2.1. The wildcard pattern
12.2.2. Literal patterns
12.2.3. Value patterns
12.2.4. Group patterns
12.2.5. Capture patterns
12.2.6. OR patterns
12.2.7. AS patterns
12.2.8. Sequence patterns
12.2.9. Mapping patterns
12.2.10. Class patterns
13. Functions
13.1. Function Definition
13.2. Function Parameters
13.3. Optional Parameters
13.4. "Varargs" Functions
13.5. Function Call
13.5.1. Calls
13.5.2. Callable
13.5.3. Positional vs keyword arguments
13.6. Lambda Expressions
13.7. map, filter, and reduce
13.7.1. The map function
13.7.2. The filter function
13.7.3. The functools.reduce function
13.8. Function Decorators
13.8.1. Built-in decorators
14. Classes
14.1. Class Definition
14.2. Classes and Instances
14.2.1. Class objects
14.2.2. Class variables
14.2.3. Constructors
14.2.4. The __init__ function
14.2.5. Instance objects
14.2.6. Instance variables
14.2.7. Instance methods
14.3. Object Oriented Programming
14.3.1. Data encapsulation
14.3.2. Magic methods
14.3.3. Inheritance
14.3.4. Multiple inheritance
14.3.5. super()
14.3.6. Duck typing
14.4. Data Classes
14.5. Enums
14.6. Class Decorators
15. Coroutines & Asynchronous Programming
15.1. Generators
15.1.1. Iterators
15.1.2. Generator functions
15.2. yield Expressions
15.3. Generator Expressions