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"For over 25 years, The Quick Python Book has been one of the best Python books money can buy. It concisely covers programming basics, while introducing Python's comprehensive standard library and unique features in depth and detail. In this fourth edition, you'll find new coverage of AI coding tools like Copilot and Google's Colaboratory (Colab), and develop a mindset that can make the most of AI."

About Python -- Getting started -- The quick Python overview -- The absolute basics -- Lists, tuples, and sets -- Strings -- Dictionaries -- Control flow -- Functions -- Modules and scoping rules -- Python programs -- Using the filesystem -- Reading and writing files -- Exceptions -- Classes and object-oriented programming -- Regular expressions -- Data types as objects -- Packages -- Using Python libraries -- Basic file wrangling -- Processing data files -- Data over the network -- Saving data -- Exploring data -- Case study -- Appendixes