Up and Running with Python

Get a quick intro to Python, the popular and highly readable object-oriented language. Joe Marini provides an overview of the installation process, basic Python syntax, and an example of how to construct and run a simple Python program. Learn to work with dates and times, read and write files, and retrieve and parse HTML, JSON, and XML data from the web.
Topics include:
Installing Python
Choosing an editor/IDE
Working with variables and expressions
Writing loops
Using the date, time, and datetime classes
Reading and writing files
Fetching Internet data
Parsing and processing HTML