Brian Overland is a textbook author, sometime actor, programmer, film reviewer, and novelist. He has been professionally programming with the C family of languages since the early 1980s and spent 10 years at Microsoft, first as a software tester and then as programmer/writer, manager, and project lead. Almost unique among programmers, he is an award-winning writer deeply committed to teaching and simplifying advanced concepts. You can read his comments on technology, reviews, and his upcoming book projects at brianoverland.com. John Bennett was formerly a senior software engineer at Proximity Technology, Franklin Electronic Publishing, and Microsoft Corporation. More recently, he has developed new programming languages using Python as a prototyping tool. He has worked on a variety of software projects, including a handheld spellchecker and East Asian handwriting recognition software. He holds nine U.S. patents.

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• Chapter 1: Review of the Fundamentals Chapter 2: Advanced String Capabilities Chapter 3: Advanced List Capabilities Chapter 4: Shortcuts, Command Line, and Packages Chapter 5: Formatting Text Precisely Chapter 6: Regular Expressions, Part I Chapter 7: Regular Expressions, Part II Chapter 8: Text and Binary Files Chapter 9: Classes and Magic Methods Chapter 10: Decimal, Money, and Other Classes Chapter 11: The Random and Math Packages Chapter 12: The “numpy” (Numeric Python) Package Chapter 13: Advanced Uses of “numpy” Chapter 14: Multiple Modules and the RPN Example Chapter 15: Getting Financial Data off the Internet Appendix A Python Operator Precedence Table Appendix B Built-In Python Functions Appendix C Set Methods Appendix D Dictionary Methods Appendix E Statement Reference

Brian Overland is a textbook author, sometime actor, programmer, film reviewer, and novelist. He has been professionally programming with the C family of languages since the early 1980s and spent 10 years at Microsoft, first as a software tester and then as programmer/writer, manager, and project lead. Almost unique among programmers, he is an award-winning writer deeply committed to teaching and simplifying advanced concepts. You can read his comments on technology, reviews, and his upcoming book projects at brianoverland.com. John Bennett was formerly a senior software engineer at Proximity Technology, Franklin Electronic Publishing, and Microsoft Corporation. More recently, he has developed new programming languages using Python as a prototyping tool. He has worked on a variety of software projects, including a handheld spellchecker and East Asian handwriting recognition software. He holds nine U.S. patents.

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• Chapter 1: Review of the Fundamentals Chapter 2: Advanced String Capabilities Chapter 3: Advanced List Capabilities Chapter 4: Shortcuts, Command Line, and Packages Chapter 5: Formatting Text Precisely Chapter 6: Regular Expressions, Part I Chapter 7: Regular Expressions, Part II Chapter 8: Text and Binary Files Chapter 9: Classes and Magic Methods Chapter 10: Decimal, Money, and Other Classes Chapter 11: The Random and Math Packages Chapter 12: The “numpy” (Numeric Python) Package Chapter 13: Advanced Uses of “numpy” Chapter 14: Multiple Modules and the RPN Example Chapter 15: Getting Financial Data off the Internet Appendix A Python Operator Precedence Table Appendix B Built-In Python Functions Appendix C Set Methods Appendix D Dictionary Methods Appendix E Statement Reference

Brian Overland is a textbook author, sometime actor, programmer, film reviewer, and novelist. He has been professionally programming with the C family of languages since the early 1980s and spent 10 years at Microsoft, first as a software tester and then as programmer/writer, manager, and project lead. Almost unique among programmers, he is an award-winning writer deeply committed to teaching and simplifying advanced concepts. You can read his comments on technology, reviews, and his upcoming book projects at brianoverland.com. John Bennett was formerly a senior software engineer at Proximity Technology, Franklin Electronic Publishing, and Microsoft Corporation. More recently, he has developed new programming languages using Python as a prototyping tool. He has worked on a variety of software projects, including a handheld spellchecker and East Asian handwriting recognition software. He holds nine U.S. patents.

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• Chapter 1: Review of the Fundamentals Chapter 2: Advanced String Capabilities Chapter 3: Advanced List Capabilities Chapter 4: Shortcuts, Command Line, and Packages Chapter 5: Formatting Text Precisely Chapter 6: Regular Expressions, Part I Chapter 7: Regular Expressions, Part II Chapter 8: Text and Binary Files Chapter 9: Classes and Magic Methods Chapter 10: Decimal, Money, and Other Classes Chapter 11: The Random and Math Packages Chapter 12: The “numpy” (Numeric Python) Package Chapter 13: Advanced Uses of “numpy” Chapter 14: Multiple Modules and the RPN Example Chapter 15: Getting Financial Data off the Internet Appendix A Python Operator Precedence Table Appendix B Built-In Python Functions Appendix C Set Methods Appendix D Dictionary Methods Appendix E Statement Reference