Updated for Python 2.6 and 3.x, the third edition of this book provides easy-to-find recipes for everything from simple tasks, such as working with dictionaries and list comprehensions, to complex tasks such as monitoring a network and building a templating system. Each recipe also includes an explanation of how and why it works. You’ll get the job done faster and learn more about Python in the process.

Topics include:

• Manipulating text
• Searching and sorting
• Working with files and the filesystem
• Object-oriented programming
• Dealing with threads and processes
• System administration
• Interacting with databases
• Network and web programming
• Processing XML
• Distributed programming
• Debugging and testing
• Plus new chapters on time, money, and metaprogramming