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

p command (pdb module) 

P_NOWAIT attribute (os module) 

P_WAIT attribute (os module) 

pack function (struct module) 

pack method (Widget object) 

pack_forget method (Widget object) 

pack_info method (Widget object) 

packages 

packages argument (distutils setup function) 

parameters 

paramstyle attribute (DBAPI-compliant modules) 

pardir attribute (os module) 

parent widgets  2nd 

parentheses ()

    class statements 

    def statement 

    function calls 

    line continuation 

    plain assignment statements 

    regular expressions 

    string formatting 

    tuple creation 

parentNode method (Node object) 

parse function

    minidom module 

    pulldom module 

parse_and_bind function (readline module) 

parseaddr function (Utils module) 

parsedate function (Utils module) 

parsedate_tz function (Utils module) 

parser function (xml.sax package) 

Parser module

    message_from_file function 

    message_from_string function 

parseString function

    minidom module 

    pulldom module 

    xml.sax package 

pass statement 

pass_ method (POP3 object) 

path attribute (sys module)  2nd 

path method (HTTPServer object) 

path module 

PATH variable

    lack of 

    python interpreter and 

path-string attributes (os module) 

pathsep attribute (os module) 

pattern attribute (regular expression object) 

PBF (Python Business Forum) 

pdb module 

    alias command 

    args command 

    break command 

    clear command 

    condition command 

    continue command 

    disable command 

    down command 

    enable command 

    ignore command 

    list command 

    next command 

    p command 

    quit command 

    return command 

    step command 

    tbreak command 

    unalias command 

    up command 

    where command 

PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals) 

per-instance methods 

percent sign (%)

    HTML templates 

    remainder 

    string formatting 

performance  [See also optimization][See also optimization]

    arrays and 

    asyncore/asynchat modules 

    CGI scripts 

    DBM modules 

    extension modules, special-purpose 

    fileinput module 

    pickle/cPickle modules 

    slicing array object 

    supporting many Python versions and 

    threads 

        synchronizing 

    Twisted package 

period (.)

    attributes 

        attribute reference 

        instance objects 

    current directory designation 

    DOTALL attribute 

    regular expressions 

    string formatting 

permissions 

Personal Web Server (PWS) 

pformat function (pprint module) 

PhotoImage class 

pickle function (copy_reg module) 

pickle module 

    dump/dumps functions 

    load/loads functions 

    Pickler function 

    pickling customization with copy_reg module 

    Unpickler function 

Pickler function (pickle/cPickle modules) 

PIL (Python Imaging Library) 

pipe function (os module) 

pkzip/pkunzip programs 

place method (Widget object) 

place_forget method (Widget object) 

place_info method (Widget object) 

plain assignment statements 

platform attribute (sys module) 

platforms argument (distutils setup function) 

platforms, specifying  2nd 

plus sign (+)

    addition 

    DateTime instances 

    DateTimeDelta instances 

    regular expressions 

    sequence concatenation 

    string formatting 

    unary plus  2nd 

plus sign-question mark (+?), regular expressions 

polymorphism

    file-like object and 

    type checking and 

POP mailboxes, accessing 

pop method (list object) 

POP3 (Post Office Protocol Version 3) 

    twisted.protocols package 

POP3 class (poplib module) 

    dele method 

    list method 

    pass_ method 

    quit method 

    retr method 

    set_debuglevel method 

    stat method 

    top method 

    user method 

popen function (os module) 

popen2 function (os module) 

popen3 function (os module) 

popen4 function (os module) 

popitem method (dictionary object) 

poplib module  2nd 

    POP3 class 

portability

    DBM modules 

    distributing Python modules 

    error code numbers 

    extension modules and 

    os module and 

    platform-dependent errors 

Portable PixMap (PPM) 

pos attribute (match object) 

pos method (operator module) 

__pos__ special method 

positional arguments 

post method

    Menu object 

    NNTP object 

Post Office Protocol Version 3  [See POP3]

postcmd function (cmd module) 

PostgreSQL 

postloop function (cmd module) 

pound sign (#)

    comments 

    regular expressions 

    string formatting 

pow function

    built-in 

    cmath module 

    math module 

pow function (built-in) 

__pow__ special method 

PowerArchiver, uncompressing/unpacking 

PPM (Portable PixMap) 

pprint function (pprint module) 

pprint module 

    pformat function 

    pprint function 

prcal function (calendar module) 

preamble attribute (Message object) 

precmd function (cmd module) 

prefix method (Node object) 

preloop function (cmd module) 

PrettyPrinter class 

previous function (bsddb module) 

previousSibling method (Node object) 

print statement 

print_callees method (Stats object) 

print_callers method (Stats object) 

print_exc function (traceback module) 

print_stats method (Stats object) 

printable attribute (string module) 

printdir function (ZipFile class) 

printing, complicated data in readable format 

prmonth function (calendar module) 

process environment 

processes 

Profile class 

profile module, run function 

profiling  2nd 

program termination 

programming paradigms, ability to mix and match in Python 

programs, running other 

prompt attribute (cmd module) 

prompt string, Python interactive sessions 

prompt_user_passwd method (FancyURLopener object) 

property type (built-in)  2nd 

Protocol class 

    connectionLost method 

    connectionMade method 

    dataReceived method 

protocol method (Toplevel object) 

protocol module

    protocol handlers 

    reactors object 

    transports object 

proxy function (weakref module) 

ProxyBasicAuthHandler class 

ProxyDigestAuthHandler class 

ps1, ps2 attribute (sys module) 

pseudo-random numbers 

PSF (Python Software Foundation) 

PSP (Python Server Pages) 

    embedding Python code in HTML 

pstats module 

psycopg module 

.pth files, module loading and 

PTL (Python Template Language) 

pulldom module 

    DOMEventStream class 

    parse function 

    parseString function 

    parsing XHTML 

punctuation

    in regular expressions 

    in URLs 

punctuation attribute (string module) 

pure distributions 

push method (async_chat object) 

pushbutton widgets 

put function (Numeric module) 

put method (Queue object) 

put_nowait method (Queue object) 

putmask function (Numeric module) 

pwd method (FTP object) 

PWS (Personal Web Server) 

Py class (Jython API) 

.py files 

Py_BuildValue function (Python C API) 

Py_CompileString function (Python C API) 

Py_Finalize function (Python C API) 

Py_InitModule3 function (Python C API) 

py_modules argument (distutils setup function) 

Py_SetProgramName function (Python C API) 

py2exe tool 

PyApache 

PyArg_ParseTuple function (Python C API) 

PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords function (Python C API) 

.pyc files 

PyCallable_Check function (Python C API) 

PyDict_GetItem function (Python C API) 

PyDict_GetItemString function (Python C API) 

PyDict_Merge function (Python C API) 

PyDict_MergeFromSeq2 function (Python C API) 

PyDict_Next function (Python C API) 

PyErr_Clear function (Python C API) 

PyErr_ExceptionMatches function (Python C API) 

PyErr_Format function (Python C API) 

PyErr_NewException function (Python C API) 

PyErr_NoMemory function (Python C API) 

PyErr_Occurred function (Python C API) 

PyErr_Print function (Python C API) 

PyErr_SetFromErrno function (Python C API) 

PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename function (Python C API) 

PyErr_SetObject function (Python C API) 

PyEval_CallObject function (Python C API) 

PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords function (Python C API) 

PyEval_EvalCode function (Python C API) 

PyException exception 

PyFloat_AS_DOUBLE function (Python C API) 

Pyfort library 

PyImport_AppendInittab function (Python C API) 

PyImport_Import function (Python C API) 

PyIter_Check function (Python C API) 

PyIter_Next function (Python C API) 

PyList_GET_ITEM function (Python C API) 

PyList_New function (Python C API) 

PyList_SET_ITEM function (Python C API) 

PyModule_AddIntConstant function (Python C API) 

PyModule_AddObject function (Python C API) 

PyModule_AddStringConstant function (Python C API) 

PyModule_GetDict function (Python C API) 

PyModule_New function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Absolute function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Add function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_And function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Check function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Divide function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Divmod function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Float function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_FloorDivide function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Int function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Invert function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Long function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Lshift function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Multiply function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Negative function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Or function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Positive function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Power function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Remainder function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Rshift function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Subtract function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_TrueDivide function (Python C API) 

PyNumber_Xor function (Python C API) 

.pyo files 

PyObject class (Jython API) 

PyObject object

    __call__ method 

    __tojava__ method 

PyObject_CallFunction function (Python C API) 

PyObject_CallMethod function (Python C API) 

PyObject_Cmp function (Python C API) 

PyObject_DelAttrString function (Python C API) 

PyObject_DelItem function (Python C API) 

PyObject_DelItemString function (Python C API) 

PyObject_GetAttrString function (Python C API) 

PyObject_GetItem function (Python C API) 

PyObject_GetItemString function (Python C API) 

PyObject_GetIter function (Python C API) 

PyObject_HasAttrString function (Python C API) 

PyObject_IsTrue function (Python C API) 

PyObject_Length function (Python C API) 

PyObject_Repr function (Python C API) 

PyObject_RichCompare function (Python C API) 

PyObject_RichCompareBool function (Python C API) 

PyObject_SetAttrString function (Python C API) 

PyObject_SetItem function (Python C API) 

PyObject_SetItemString function (Python C API) 

PyObject_Str function (Python C API) 

PyObject_Type function (Python C API) 

PyObject_Unicode function (Python C API) 

pyrepl package for Unix 

Pyrex 

PyRun_File function (Python C API) 

PyRun_String function (Python C API) 

pyRXP 

PySequence_Contains function (Python C API) 

PySequence_DelSlice function (Python C API) 

PySequence_Fast function (Python C API) 

PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM function (Python C API) 

PySequence_Fast_GET_SIZE function (Python C API) 

PySequence_GetSlice function (Python C API) 

PySequence_List function (Python C API) 

PySequence_SetSlice function (Python C API) 

PySequence_Tuple function (Python C API) 

PyString_AS_STRING function (Python C API) 

PyString_AsStringAndSize function (Python C API) 

PyString_FromFormat function (Python C API) 

PyString_FromStringAndSize function (Python C API) 

PySys_SetArgv function (Python C API) 

Python  2nd  [See also CPython Jython][See also CPython Jython]

    compiling into Java 

        adding Java-visible methods 

        jythonc command 

        Python applets/servlets 

    development 

    development environments  [See development environments]

    documentation 

    embedding in HTML 

    embedding/extending  [See CPython, extending]

    extension modules  [See extension modules see also CPython]

    extensions  [See CPython, extending]

    implementations 

    installing  [See installing]

    interpreter 

        command-line options 

        command-line syntax 

        environment variables 

        interactive sessions 

        prompt strings, specifying 

    language  2nd 

        indentation  2nd 

        lexical structure 

    library 

    modules  [See modules]

    newsgroups/mailing lists 

    object models 

        classic 

        new-style 

    object-orientation  [See also Python, object models]2nd 

    programming paradigms 

    programs

        documenting 

        running 

    resources 

        business uses of Python 

        extension modules 

        print 

        Python Journal 

        recipes 

        source 

    running other programs 

    SIGs 

    upgrades, overwriting customizations 

    versions  2nd 

        datetime module 

        Forum releases 

        logging 

        Python-in-a-tie releases 

        SimpleXMLRPCServer module, defect in 

        sockets with timeout behavior 

        supporting many different 

        time module  2nd 

        type objects 

Python .NET 

Python Business Forum (PBF) 

Python C API, extending CPython with 

    building/installing C-coded Python extensions 

Python Database API 2.0 standard (DBAPI 2.0) 

Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) 

Python Imaging Library (PIL) 

Python Labs, Zope Corporation 

Python Server Pages (PSP) 

Python Software Foundation (PSF) 

Python Template Language (PTL) 

Python-in-a-tie releases 

python.path option 

PYTHONHOME variable 

PythonInterpreter class (Jython API) 

    eval method 

    exec method 

    execfile method 

    get method 

    set method 

PythonInterpreter icon (Macintosh) 

PYTHONPATH variable 

    module loading 

.pythonrc.py file 

PYTHONSTARTUP variable 

    user customization and 

pythonw interpreter 

PythonWin 

PythonWorks 

PyTuple_GET_ITEM function (Python C API) 

PyTuple_New function (Python C API) 

PyTuple_SET_ITEM function (Python C API) 

.pyw files 

PyXML