Name: Textbook of Python
Author: Dr Chris Paton

Dr Chris Paton, University of Auckland

An open-access textbook on the Python programming language. Covering the core language, data structures, object-oriented programming, the standard library, testing, and the broader Python ecosystem from first principles.

Chapters

Foundations

1 Introduction: What Is Python?
2 Setting Up Python
3 Variables and Data Types
4 Control Flow

Core Language

5 Functions
6 Data Structures
7 Strings and Text Processing
8 Files and Input/Output

Object-Oriented Python

9 Classes and Objects
10 Inheritance and Composition
11 Error Handling
12 Modules and Packages

Practical Python

13 The Standard Library
14 Testing
15 Virtual Environments and Packaging
16 Working with Data

Advanced Topics

17 Decorators, Generators, and Iterators
18 Type Hints and Static Analysis
19 Concurrency and Parallelism
20 The Python Ecosystem

This site is currently in Beta. Please email Chris Paton (cpaton@gmail.com) with any suggestions, questions or comments.