Python Library Reference (Outline)

1. Introduction
2. Built-in Objects
3. Built-in Types
4. String Services
5. Data Types
6. Numeric and Mathematical Modules
7. Internet Data Handling
8. Structured Markup Processing Tools
9. File Formats
10. Cryptographic Services
11. File and Directory Access
12. Data Compression and Archiving
13. Data Persistence
14. Generic Operating System Services
15. Optional Operating System Services
16. Unix Specific Services
17. Interprocess Communication and Networking
18. Internet Protocols and Support
19. Multimedia Services
20. Graphical User Interfaces with Tk
21. Internationalization
22. Program Frameworks
23. Development Tools
24. The Python Debugger
25. The Python Profilers
26. Python Runtime Services
27. Custom Python Interpreters
28. Restricted Execution
29. Importing Modules
30. Python Language Services
31. Python Compiler Packages
32. Abstract Syntax Trees
33. Miscellaneous Services
34. SGI IRIX Specific Services
35. Sun OS Specific Services
36. MS Windows Specific Services

Python Reference Manual

1. Introduction
     Alternate Implementations
     Notation

2. Lexical Analysis
     Line Structure
       Logical Lines
       Physical Lines
       Comments
       Encoding declarations
       Explicit line joining
       Implicit line joining
       Blank lines
       Indentation
       Whitespace between tokens
     Other tokens
     Identifiers and keywords
       Keywords
       Reserved classes of identifiers
     Literals
       String literals
       String literal concatenation
       Numeric literals
       Integer and long integer literals
       Floating point literals
       Imaginary literals
     Operators
     Delimeters

3. Data model
     Objects, values, and types
     The standard type hierarchy
     New-style and classic classes     
     Special method names
       Basic customization
       Customizing attribute access
       Customizing class creation
       Emulating callable objects
       Emulating container types
       Additional methods for emulation of sequence types
       Emulating numerical types
       Coercion rules
       With Statement Context Managers

4. Execution model
     Naming and binding
       Interaction with dynamic features
     Exceptions

5. Expressions
     Arithmetic conversions
     Atoms
       Identifiers(Names)
       Literals
       Parenthesized forms
       List displays
       Generator expressions
       Dictionary displays
       String conversions
     Primaries
       Attribute references
       Subscriptions
       Slicings
       Calls
     The power operator
     Unary arithmetic operations
     Binary arithmetic operations
     Shifting operations
     Binary bit-wise operations
     Comparisons
     Boolean operations 
     Lambdas
     Expression lists
     Evaluation order
     
6. Simple statements
     Expression statements
     Assert statements
     Assignment statements
       Augmented assignment statements
     The "pass" statement
     The "del" statement
     The "print" statement
     The "return" statement
     The "yield" statement
     The "raise" statement
     The "break" statement
     The "continue" statement
     The "import" statement
       Future statements
     The "global" statement
     The "exec" statement
   Compound statements
     The "if" statement
     The "while" statement
     The "for" statement
     The "try" statement
     The "with" statement
     Function definitions
     Class definitions
   Top-level components
     Complete Python programs
     File input
     Interactive input
     Expression input