• Why do people use Python?

• Is Python a scripting language?

• What can I do with Python?

• What are Python's technical strengths?

• Introducing the Python interpreter

• Program execution

• Execution model variations

• Python program structure

• Why use built-in types?

• Numbers

• Python expression Operators

• Numbers in action

• The dynamic typing interlude

• String literals

• Strings in action

• String formatting

• String methods

• General type categories

• Lists

• Lists in action

• Dictionaries

• Dictionaries in action

• Tuples

• Files

• Type categories revisited

• Object generality

• References versus copies

• Comparisons, equality, and truth

• Python's type hierarchies

• Other types in Python

• Built-in type gotchas

• Assignment statements

• Expression statements

• Print statements

• If statements

• Python syntax rules

• Truth tests

• While loops

• Break, continue, pass, and the loop else

• For loops

• Loop variations

• Why use functions?

• Coding functions

• Definition & calls

• Intersecting sequences

• Scope rules

• The global statement

• Scopes and nested functions

• Passing arguments

• Special argument matching modes

• Why use modules?

• Python program architecture

• How imports work

• Module creation

• Module usage

• Module namespaces

• Reloading modules

• Package import basics

• Package import example

• Why use package imports?

• Why use classes?

• OOP from 30,000 feet

• Classes generate multiple instance objects

• Classes are customized by inheritance

• Classes can intercept python operators

• The class statement

• Methods

• Inheritance

• Operator overloading

• Namespaces

• Python and OOP

• Classes as records

• OOP and inheritance: "is-a" relationships

• OOP and composition: "has-a" relationships

• OOP and delegation

• Multiple inheritance

• Classes are objects: Generic object factories

• Methods are objects: Bound or unbound

• Classes versus modules

• Why use exceptions?

• Exception handling: The short story

• The try/except/else statement

• The try/finally statement

• The raise statement

• The assert statement

• String-based exceptions

• Class-based exceptions

• General raise statement forms

• Nesting exception handlers

• Exception idioms

• Exception design tips

• Exception gotchas

• Core language summary

• Conversions, numbers and comparisons

• Manipulating strings

• Data structure manipulations

• Manipulating files and directories

• Internet-related modules

• Executing programs

• Debugging, testing, timing, profiling

• Web frameworks

• GUI frameworks

• Content management frameworks