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Lightweight, powerful, and very simple to make use of, Python may be the popular open-source object oriented programming language employed for both standalone programs and scripting applications. Python is recognized as simple to understand, but there is no quicker method to mastery of the language than learning from a specialist teacher. This edition of Learning Python puts you in the hands of two expert teachers, Mark Lutz and David Ascher, whose friendly, well-structured prose has guided manya programmer to proficiency with the language.Learning Python, Second Edition, provides programmers an extensive learning tool for Python and object-oriented development. Completely updated for the various language and class presentation changes which have occurred because the release of the very first edition in 1999, this guide introduces the fundamental aspects of the most recent release of Python 2.3 and covers new features, such as list comprehensions, nested scopes, and iterators/generators.