This new book by the world's leading programming language textbook authors carefully explains how to use Python as a general-purpose programming language and how to program multi-tier, client/server, database-intensive, Internet- and Web-based applications.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized corporate-training and content-creation organization specializing in Python, Visual Basic® .NET, C#, Visual C++® .NET, Java™, C++, C, XML, Perl, Internet, Web, wireless and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several worldwide #1 programming-language textbooks, including Java How to Program, 4/e, C++ How to Program, 3/e and Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e.

In Python How to Program, the Deitels and their colleagues, Jonathan Liperi and Ben Wiedermann, discuss topics you need to build complete Web-based applications, including:

* HTML/XHTML™/CSS™
* Python Server Pages/CGI
* Networking/Sockets
* GUI/Tkinter/Python Mega Widgets
* PyOpenGL/Multimedia/Accessibility
* Databases/DB-API/SQL
* File Processing/Serialization
* Modules/Classes/Class Attributes
* Class Customization/Method Overriding
* Control Structures/Functions/Inheritance
* String Manipulation/Regular Expressions
* Lists/Tuples/Dictionaries/Data Structures
* Process Management/Multithreading
* Interprocess Communication
* Exceptions/XML Processing
* Security/Restricted Execution

Python How to Program includes extensive pedagogic features:

* Hundreds of LIVE-CODE™ programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
* World Wide Web and Internet resources to encourage further research
* Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons

Python How to Program is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning Python, including Web sites (deitel, prenhall/deitel and InformIT/deitel) with the book's source-code examples (which are also on the enclosed CD) and other information for faculty, students and professionals; an optional interactive CD (Python Multimedia Cyber Classroom) containing hyperlinks, solutions to half the book's exercises and audio walkthroughs of the book's code examples; and e-mail access to the authors at deitel@deitel

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