A Byte of Python

‘A Byte of Python’ is a free book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you. This book is written for the latest Python 3, even though Python 2 is the commonly found version of Python today (read more about it in Python 2 versus 3 section). This book is a re-package version of original document(by Swaroop C H). You can get original free version at below link. (http://swaroopch.com/notes/Python) http://swaroopch.com/notes/Python This book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This means: You are free to Share i.e. to copy, distribute and transmit this book You are free to Remix i.e. to adapt this book You are free to use it for commercial purposes Please note: Please do not sell electronic or printed copies of the book unless you have clearly and prominently mentioned in the description that these copies are not from the original author of this book. Attribution must be shown in the introductory description and front page of the document by linking back to (http://swaroopch.com/notes/Python) http://swaroopch.com/notes/Python and clearly indicating that the original text can be fetched from this location. All the code/scripts provided in this book is licensed under the 3-clause BSD License unless otherwise noted. Introduction Dedication Preface About Python Installation First Steps Basics Operators and Expressions Control flow Functions Modules Data Structures Problem Solving Object Oriented Programming Input and Output Exceptions Standard Library More What Next Appendix: FLOSS Appendix: About Appendix: Revision History Appendix: Translations Appendix: Translation How-to Feedback