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Chapter 1:Instant Hacking:The Basics;Chapter 2:Lists and Tuples;Chapter 3:Working with Strings;Chapter 4: Dictionaries:When Indices Won't Do;Chapter 5:Conditionals, Loops,and Some Other Statements;Chapter 6:Abstraction; Chapter 7:More Abstraction;Chapter 8:Exceptions;Chapter 9:Magic Methods,Properties,and Iterators;Chapter 10: Batteries Included;Chapter 11:Files and Stuff;Chapter 12: Graphical User Interfaces;Chapter 13:Playful Programming; Chapter 14:Project 1:Instant Markup;Chapter 15:Project 2: Painting a Pretty Picture;Chapter 16: Project 3:XML for All Occasions;Chapter 17:Project 4:In the News; Chapter 18: Project 5:A Virtual Tea Party;Chapter 19: Project 6:Remote Editing with CGI;Chapter 20:Project 7: Your Own Bulletin Board;Chapter 21:Project 8:File Sharing with XML-RPC;Chapter 22:Project 9:File Sharing II-Now with GUI!;Chapter 23: Project 10:Do-It-Yourself Arcade Game;Appendix A The Short Version;Appendix B Python Reference;Appendix C Online Ressou