Python 2.6: For programmers, working with text is not about reading their newspaper on a break; it�s about taking textual data in one form and doing something to it. Extract, decrypt, parse, restructure � these are just some of the text tasks that can occupy much of a programmer�s life. If this is your life, this book will make it better � a practical guide on how to do what you want with textual data in Python.

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Computer Games with Python: This book is totally appropriate for someone who has never programmed before. Everything is explained, right from the ground up, in a lively, interesting style which doesn't dumb things down."

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Python 2.6 Text Processing: For programmers, working with text is not about reading their newspaper on a break; it�s about taking textual data in one form and doing something to it. Extract, decrypt, parse, restructure � these are just some of the text tasks that can occupy much of a programmer�s life. If this is your life, this book will make it better � a practical guide on how to do what you want with textual data in Python.

Python 2.6 Text Processing Beginner�s Guide is the easiest way to learn how to manipulate text with Python. Packed with examples, it will teach you text processing techniques and give you the skills to work with the most popular Python libraries for transforming text from one form to another.

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Exploring Python: Exploring Python takes an active learning approach which engages the student as an equal partner in the process of learning the fun, educational, and powerful programming language. This approach instills habits that students will carry with them throughout their programming career and helps them retain and use the information they have learned.

Tim Budd is one of the best-known authors in Computer Science and has a reputation for producing writing texts along the leading edge of the discipline. Exploring Python provides an accessible and reliable introduction into programming with the Python language.

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Programming in Python 3: Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3�s features and idioms. Programming in Python 3, Second Edition, brings together all the knowledge you need to write any program, use any standard or third-party Python 3 library, and create new library modules of your own.

Summerfield draws on his many years of Python experience to share deep insights into Python 3 development you won�t find anywhere else. He begins by illuminating Python�s �beautiful heart�: the eight key elements of Python you need to write robust, high-performance programs. Building on these core elements, he introduces new topics designed to strengthen your practical expertise�one concept and hands-on example at a time. Coverage includes

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Python Scripting for Computational Science: With a primary focus on examples and applications of relevance to computational scientists, this brilliantly useful book shows computational scientists how to develop tailored, flexible, and human-efficient working environments built from small scripts written in the easy-to-learn, high-level Python language. All the tools and examples in this book are open source codes. This third edition features lots of new material. It is also released after a comprehensive reorganization of the text. The author has inserted improved examples and tools and updated information, as well as correcting any errors that crept in to the first imprint.

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Python Phrasebook: Essential Code and Commands
Python Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you need to quickly and effectively complete your programming projects in Python.
Concise and Accessible
Easy to carry and easy to use�lets you ditch all those bulky books for one portable guide
Flexible and Functional
Packed with more than 100 customizable code snippets�so you can readily code functional Python in just about any situation

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Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: Whether you're building GUI prototypes or full-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel, PyQt 4 is your fastest, easiest, most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt 4 development.
With Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt you'll learn how to build efficient GUI applications that run on all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many versions of Unix, using the same source code for all of them. Summerfield systematically introduces every core GUI development technique: from dialogs and windows to data handling; from events to printing; and more. Through the book's realistic examples you'll discover a completely new PyQt 4-based programming approach, as well as coverage of many new topics, from PyQt 4's rich text engine to advanced model/view and graphics/view programming. Every key concept is illuminated with realistic, downloadable examples�all tested on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with Python 2.5, Qt 4.2, and PyQt 4.2, and on Windows and Linux with Qt 4.3 and PyQt 4.3.

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Python Power:
Python, a powerful and flexible general purpose programming language is growing in popularity as more people become interested in programming using open source languages. "Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide" shows readers how to use Python to run Web sites, write GUI interfaces, control number-crunching code, process large XML data sets, build test suites for C or Java code, and much more. Technical topics are explained clearly and concisely and end-of-chapter projects encourage the reader to program on their own. A detailed table of contents and a complete, well-organized index make this book a great reference tool. All code used in the book will be available for download on the companion website.

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Python programming books: This collection has 100 Python programming books as of Jan 2011. It is basically an updated version of the older Nov 2010 collection. In this update 11 new books were added or updated, and the PDF search index was created with Acrobat X instead of Acrobat 9 as was previously the case.

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