(normally) - in two flavors. Used only to prioritize high-traffic pages for dev work, iff JS and tracker enabled. The former/defunct training site's id: ga('create', 'UA-52578333-1', 'auto'). The book site's id, now used for all: ga('create', 'UA-52579036-1', 'auto'). JS is also used if enabled for thumbspage galleries, Top buttons, TOCs, etc. Jun-2019: tell Google Analytics to anonymize IP address on receipt for privacy. More: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/. Oct-2022: install a GA4 tag (i.e., script) alongside the prior UA tag. UA tags will stop collecting data in 2023. It's okay to use both until the cutover (and Google advises doing so), but the UA tag will be pointless after that and should be removed. This handles genhtml-insert clients; others get tags by running insert-analytics.py in package-publishing scripts. Also per Google: "In Google Analytics 4, IP anonymization is not necessary since IP addresses are not logged or stored". Let's hope so... -->

About Programming Python

[Latest edition]

The book Programming Python—an iconic applications-programming tutorial—has been published in four editions, each reflecting changes in both Python and the larger software ecosystem in which it is deployed. This site hosts support pages here for each edition. Please select the relevant link in the first column of the table below:

Edition  Published   Python   Pages 
Programming Python, 4th Edition Jan-2011 3.2+ 1630
Programming Python, 3rd Edition Aug-2006 2.5 1600
Programming Python, 2nd Edition Mar-2001 2.0 1300
Programming Python, 1st Edition Oct-1996 1.3 900

Book Scope

The 1st edition of this book was a broad introduction to both Python and its applications. The 2nd through 4th editions focus on common applications of the language and assume you have already learned the language itself from a first book such as Learning Python. That is, Programming Python is about what you can do with Python after you've mastered it. Because of this focus, its examples are larger and more advanced than those in introductory texts, and it's designed to be used as part of a multiple-book set: a follow-up to Learning Python and supplemented by Python Pocket Reference. See also the 2024 update for this book's latest edition.



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