Python cookbook

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Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition; The Implementation of the Book; Using the Code from This Book; Audience; Organization; Further Reading; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; Alex Martelli; Anna Martelli Ravenscroft; 1. Text; Basic Textual Operations; Sources of Text; String Basics; 1.1. Processing a String One Character at a Time; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.2. Converting Between Characters and Numeric Codes; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.3. Testing Whether an Object Is String-like; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.4. Aligning Strings SolutionDiscussion; See Also; 1.5. Trimming Space from the Ends of a String; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.6. Combining Strings; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.7. Reversing a String by Words or Characters; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.8. Checking Whether a String Contains a Set of Characters; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.9. Simplifying Usage of Strings& translate Method; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.10. Filtering a String for a Set of Characters; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.11. Checking Whether a String Is Text or Binary; Solution; Discussion; See Also 1.12. Controlling CaseSolution; Discussion; See Also; 1.13. Accessing Substrings; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.14. Changing the Indentation of a Multiline String; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.15. Expanding and Compressing Tabs; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.16. Interpolating Variables in a String; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.17. Interpolating Variables in a Stringin Python 2.4; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.18. Replacing Multiple Patterns in a Single Pass; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.19. Checking a String for Any of Multiple Endings; Solution; Discussion See Also1.20. Handling International Text with Unicode; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.21. Converting Between Unicode and Plain Strings; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.22. Printing Unicode Charactersto Standard Output; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.23. Encoding Unicode Data for XML and HTML; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.24. Making Some Strings Case-Insensitive; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.25. Converting HTML Documents to Texton a Unix Terminal; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2. Files; Portability and Flexibility; 2.1. Reading from a File; Solution; Discussion; See Also 2.2. Writing to a FileSolution; Discussion; See Also; 2.3. Searching and Replacing Text in a File; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.4. Reading a Specific Line from a File; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.5. Counting Lines in a File; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.6. Processing Every Word in a File; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.7. Using Random-Access Input/Output; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.8. Updating a Random-Access File; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.9. Reading Data from zip Files; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.10. Handling a zip File Inside a String; Solution