Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition (In a Nutshell)

I/O operations

    auxiliary modules for 

        fileinput 

        linecache 

        struct 

        xreadlines 

    error streams 

    failure of 

    optimizing 

    richer-text Input/output 

        console I/O 

        readline module 

    StringIO/cStringIO modules 

    text Input/output 

        getpass module 

        print statement 

        standard input 

        standard output/standard error 

__iadd__ special method 

__iand__ special method 

IBM AS/400, installing Python 

IBM DB/2 

iconify method (Toplevel object) 

id function (built-in) 

identchars attribute (cmd module) 

identifiers  2nd 

    characters not allowed in 

identity function (Numeric module) 

IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) 

__idiv__ special method 

IDLE (Interactive DeveLopment Environment) 

    debugging in 

if statements 

    continue statements in place of 

__ifloordiv__ special method 

ignore command (pdb module) 

IGNORECASE attribute (re module) 

__ilshift__ special method 

imag method (array object) 

image_create method (Text object) 

images, supported by Tkinter module 

imaginary method (array object) 

IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4) 

immutable objects 

__imod__ special method 

implementations of Python 

__import__ function (built-in)  2nd  3rd 

import statement 

ImportError exception 

__imul__ special method 

include_dirs argument (distutils Extension class) 

IndentationError exception 

index method

    list object 

    string object 

    Text object 

Indexed-Sequential Access Method (ISAM) 

IndexError exception 

indexing

    dictionaries 

    sequences 

    targets 

indexOf method (operator module) 

indices function (Numeric module) 

industry-specific markup languages 

inet_aton function (socket module) 

inet_ntoa function (socket module) 

info method (URL file-like object) 

infolist function (ZipFile class) 

InfoZip zlib compression library 

inheritance

    classic classes  2nd 

        delegating to superclass methods 

        ÒdeletingÓ class attributes 

        overriding attributes 

    new-style object model 

        cooperative superclass method calling 

        method resolution order 

__init__ special method  2nd  3rd 

__init__.py file 

innerproduct function (Numeric module) 

input function

    built-in  2nd 

        safer variant of 

    fileinput module 

insert method

    Entry object 

    list object 

    Listbox object 

    Menu object 

    Text object 

insert_cascade method (Menu object) 

insert_checkbutton method (Menu object) 

insert_command method (Menu object) 

insert_radiobutton method (Menu object) 

insert_separator method (Menu object) 

insertBefore method (Node object) 

insort function (bisect module) 

inspect module  2nd 

    currentframe function 

    formatargspec function 

    formatargvalues function 

    getargspec function  2nd 

    getdoc function 

    getfile function 

    getmembers function 

    getmodule function 

    getmro function 

    getsource function 

    getsourcefile function 

    getsourcelines function 

    isbuiltin function 

    isclass function 

    iscode function 

    isframe function 

    isfunction function 

    ismethod function 

    ismodule function 

    isroutine function 

    stack function 

insstr method (Window object) 

install function (gettext module) 

install_opener function (urllib2 module) 

Installer tool 

installing 

    C-coded Python extensions 

    CPython 

    Jython  2nd 

    platform-specific installers, packages distributed as 

    Python from binaries 

    Python from source code 

        Macintosh 

        Unix 

        Windows 

    resident extension modules 

instances

    of classic classes 

        attributes 

        factory functions 

    of new-style classes 

        per-instance methods 

__int__ special method 

int type (built-in)  2nd 

integers

    bitwise operations on, numeric operations and 

    converting numbers to 

    converting to hexadecimal strings 

    converting to octal strings 

    largest in this version of Python, retrieving 

    literals 

    retrieving list of in arithmetic progression 

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) 

inter-process communication  [See IPC]

interact method (Telnet object) 

Interactive DeveLopment Environment  [See IDLE]

interactive sessions  2nd 

    isatty function (file object) 

    Python interpreter 

    readline module 

    sys.displayhook 

internal types 

internationalization 

    codecs module 

    currency formatting 

    gettext module 

    locale module 

    localization 

Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4 (IMAP4) 

Internet Protocol (IP) 

Internet servers 

interoperability, Python release and debugging builds 

intro attribute (cmd module) 

invert method (operator module) 

__invert__ special method 

invoke method

    Button object 

    Checkbutton object 

    Menu object 

    Radiobutton object 

IOError exceptions  2nd 

__ior__ special method 

IP (Internet Protocol) 

IPC (inter-process communication) 

    cross-platform mechanism  [See mmap module]

    mmap object, using for 

__ipow__ special method 

__irshift__ special method 

is_multipart method (Message object) 

is_output method

    Morsel object 

    SimpleCookie object 

    SmartCookie object 

is_zipfile function (zipfile module) 

isabs function (os.path module) 

isAlive method (Thread object) 

isalnum method (string object) 

isalpha method (string object) 

ISAM (Indexed-Sequential Access Method) 

ISAPI 

isatty method (file object) 

isbuiltin function (inspect module) 

isclass function (inspect module) 

iscode function (inspect module) 

iscontiguous method (array object) 

isDaemon method (Thread object) 

isdigit method (string object) 

isdir function (os.path module) 

isenabled function (gc module) 

isfile function (os.path module) 

isfirstline function (fileinput module) 

isframe function (inspect module) 

isfunction function (inspect module) 

isinstance function (built-in)  2nd  3rd 

isleap function (calendar module) 

islink function (os.path module) 

islower method (string object) 

ismethod function (inspect module) 

ismodule function (inspect module) 

ismount function (os.path module) 

ISO 8601 formats, time/date values in 

ISO module 

ISO-compliant C compiler, installing Python and 

iso_week attribute (DateTime class) 

isroutine function (inspect module) 

isSameNode method (Node object) 

isSet method (Event object) 

isspace method (string object) 

isstdin function (fileinput module) 

issubclass function (built-in)  2nd 

istitle method (string object) 

__isub__ special method 

isupper method (string object) 

itemcget method (Canvas object) 

itemconfig method (Canvas object) 

items 

    returning largest/smallest 

items method (dictionary object) 

itemsize method (array object) 

iter function (built-in)  2nd 

__iter__ special method 

iteration

    file object 

    iterators 

        creating 

    Python versions 

iteritems method (dictionary object) 

iterkeys method (dictionary object) 

itervalues method (dictionary object) 

__itruediv__ special method 

__ixor__ special method