{"id":8043,"date":"2004-10-12T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T12:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/12\/dive-into-python\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T02:08:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T23:08:14","slug":"dive-into-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/12\/dive-into-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Dive into Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/thumb-20041012-python_logo.gif\" alt=\"\"\/>Once in a while I need to write a couple of lines in Python.  When that happens I histerically run around the web looking for some quick introduction or tutorial on the language.  There are plenty of those, of course.  But just to have something handy, I&#8217;ll put a link here to <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintopython.org\/toc\/\">Dive Into Python<\/a>.  What is so different about this tutorial is that it is very practical.  There are many examples of code and very little explanations and theoretical crap that everyone knows already or can guess from the code.  Simply use table of contents and jump to the needed part, where example awaits for you.  Great!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Once in a while I need to write a couple of lines in Python. When that happens I histerically run around the web looking for some quick introduction or tutorial on the language. There are plenty of those, of course. But just to have something handy, I&#8217;ll put a link here to Dive Into Python. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/12\/dive-into-python\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dive into Python<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[37,80],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","tag-python","tag-tutorials"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9951,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/07\/daily-del-icio-us-bookmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":8043,"position":0},"title":"Daily del.icio.us bookmarks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2006-03-06 Dive Into Python -- Python book available online Tagged as: book code development documentation language programming python tutorial AT Audio Error - UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2 \/ michael nt milne <michael.milne@gmail.com> -- Fix for a common\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9845,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/20\/daily-del-icio-us-bookmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":8043,"position":1},"title":"Daily del.icio.us bookmarks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2006-01-19 Feed Reader? \u00c2\u00b7 Asymptomatic Tagged as: aggregator atom features feed feeds lists rss software tools wishlist XMLHTTP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tagged as: ajax dhtml java javascript microsoft programming reference standards web webdesign wiki wikipedia xml Learn Python in 10 minutes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8592,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/05\/python-for-perl-programmers\/","url_meta":{"origin":8043,"position":2},"title":"Python for Perl programmers","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 5, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Slides for Matt Biddulph's speech \"Python for Perl programmers\" are a quick and easy way for Perl programmer to learn main differences between Perl and Python. 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