Kent's Korner

by Kent S Johnson

This is a collection of short, introductory essays prepared for meetings of the Python SIG of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group. And yes, the name is corny.

• Decorators (1142 words)
• The path module (359 words)
• List Comprehensions (973 words)
• Iterators and generators (1121 words)
• The logging module (1074 words)
• Firedrop2 and reStructuredText (487 words)
• Sorting (926 words)
• Descriptors and properties (1004 words)
• A Brief Introduction to Beautiful Soup (650 words)
• urllib2 Cookbook (1067 words)
• IPython (607 words)
• Assignment (696 words)
• collections.defaultdict (368 words)
• unittest (1010 words)
• Context managers and the 'with' statement (807 words)