Textbook in PDF format This book is a short, introductory guide for the Python programming language. This book is well suited. As a reference material for Python beginner workshops If you have prior experience with another programming language If you want a complement resource after reading a Python basics book, watching a video course, etc There are several exercises provided throughout the book, which will help test your understanding of Python syntax and logical skills. Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically type-checked and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly procedural), object-oriented and functional programming. It is often described as a "batteries included" language due to its comprehensive standard library. Python consistently ranks as one of the most popular programming languages, and has gained widespread use in the Machine Learning community. All the Python programs discussed in this book, along with related text files, can be accessed from my GitHub repo learnbyexample: 100_page_python_intro. However, I'd highly recommend typing the programs manually by yourself. Prerequisites: You should be already familiar with basic programming concepts. If you are new to programming, check out my comprehensive curated list on Python to get started. You are also expected to get comfortable with reading manuals, searching online, visiting external links provided for further reading, tinkering with the illustrated examples, asking for help when you are stuck and so on. In other words, be proactive and curious instead of just consuming the content passively. Version changes: 2.0 (Dec 18, 2024): Python version updated to 3.13.0 Added more exercises and you can now practice some of them using this interactive TUI app Contents: Preface Introduction Numeric data types Strings and user input Defining functions Control structures Importing and creating modules Installing modules and Virtual environments Exception handling Debugging Testing Tuple and Sequence operations List Mutability Dict Set Text processing Comprehensions and Generator expressions Dealing with files Executing external commands Command line arguments