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Python is a powerful language that is easy to learn. It includes an efficient advanced data structure that provides a simple but very effective way for object-oriented programming. Python elegant grammar, dynamic data type, and its interpreter make it a scripting language that is applied to various fields and development environments on most platforms.
The source code and compiled version of the Python interpreter and its extended standard library can be available free of charge from Python's Web site http://www.python.org/ and all mirror stations and freely release. Some third-party modules, programs, tools, and additional documents of Python are also available on this site.
Python's interpreter is easy to achieve an extension of functionality and data structures through C or C (or other languages that can be called by c). Because of some Python is also very suitable as an extension language for custom applications.
This manual introduces some basic knowledge and root of Python language and its system. This helps Python has a basic understanding, of course, all examples are included, so this manual is ideal for offline reading.
For a detailed introduction of standard objects and modules, please query the Python library reference manual documentation. The Python Reference Manual provides more formal instructions on language. You need to write C or C extensions, read the extension and integration of the Python interpreter and the Python / C API reference manual. These books covers Python knowledge on each depth.
This manual does not cover all of Python, nor does it explain all related knowledge used. Instead, it introduces many of the most striking functions in Python, which will help the reader's style of this language. After reading it, you should be able to read and write Python modules and programs, follow you can learn from the Python Library Reference Manual to learn the Python complex library and module.
