Developing decent software is difficult monstrously difficult, in fact. People are always looking for miracle cures, silver bullets that will help them creating great software in no time with no conscious effort. In fact, almost everyone will agree to the existence of a ’software crisis’.
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The process of translating and using How to Think Like a Computer Scientist for the past two years has conrmed Python\’s suitability for teaching beginning students. Python greatly simplies programming examples and makes important programming ideas easier to teach.
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The Python Imaging Library adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter.This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and fairly powerful image processing capabilities.
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This chapter discusses Python capabilities that are likely to be used in text processing applications. For an introduction   to Python syntax and semantics per se, readers might want to skip ahead to Appendix A (A Selective and Impressionistic Short Review of Python); Guido van Rossum\’s _Python Tutorial_ at <http://python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html> is also quite excellent. The focus here occupies a somewhat higher level: not the Python language narrowly, but also not yet specific to text processing.
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If you’re using an account on a hosted server, your ISP may have already installed Python. Most popular Linux distributions come with Python in the default installation.
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This book serves as a guide or tutorial to the Python programming language. It is intended to help both newbies as well as experienced programmers to learn and get started with Python.
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Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python is a tutorial designed to be a introduction to the Python programming language. This guide is for someone with no programming experience.
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Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Its high-level built in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for rapid application development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together.
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