100 Page Python Intro

This book is a short, introductory guide for the Python programming language. This book is well suited:

• As a reference material for Python beginner workshops
• If you have prior experience with another programming language
• If you want a complement resource after reading a Python basics book, watching a video course, etc

The book also includes exercises to test your understanding, which is presented together as a single file in this repo — Exercises.md

See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.

E-book

You can purchase the pdf/epub versions of the book using these links:

• https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/100pagepythonintro
• https://leanpub.com/100pagepythonintro

You can also get the book as part of these bundles:

• Learn by example Python bundle from https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/python-bundle or https://leanpub.com/b/python-bundle
• All books bundle from https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books
  • Includes all my programming books

See https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/ for list of other books

For a preview of the book, see sample chapters

The book can also be viewed as a single markdown file in this repo. See my blogpost on generating pdf/epub from markdown using pandoc if you are interested in the ebook creation process.

For web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/100_page_python_intro/

Testimonials

It's very thorough, written with care, and presented in a way that makes sense. Even as an intermediate Python programmer, I found use in this book.

— feedback by Andrew Healey on Hacker News

Feedback

Open an issue if you spot any typo/errors.

⚠️ ⚠️ Please DO NOT submit pull requests. Main reason being any modification requires changes in multiple places.

I'd also highly appreciate your feedback about the book.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/learn_byexample

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Numeric data types
4. Strings and user input
5. Defining functions
6. Control structures
7. Importing and creating modules
8. Installing modules and Virtual environments
9. Exception handling
10. Debugging
11. Testing
12. Tuple and Sequence operations
13. List
14. Mutability
15. Dict
16. Set
17. Text processing
18. Comprehensions and Generator expressions
19. Dealing with files
20. Executing external commands
21. Command line arguments

Acknowledgements

• Offical Python website — documentation and examples
• stackoverflow and unix.stackexchange — for getting answers to pertinent questions on Python, Shell and programming in general
• /r/learnpython and /r/learnprogramming — helpful forum for beginners
• /r/Python/ — general Python discussion
• tex.stackexchange — for help on pandoc and tex related questions
• Cover image:
  • Ilsa Olson — cover art
  • LibreOffice Draw — title/author text
• pngquant and svgcleaner for optimizing images
• Warning and Info icons by Amada44 under public domain
• Dean Clark and Elijah for catching a few typos
• mdBook — for web version of the book
  • mdBook-pagetoc — for adding table of contents for each chapter
  • minify-html — for minifying html files

License

The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file