Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python 3 is a hands-on guide to Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. As in the original book, Dive Into Python, each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end.
This book includes: Example programs completely rewritten to illustrate powerful new concepts now available in Python 3: sets, iterators, generators, closures, comprehensions, and much more
A detailed case study of porting a major library from Python 2 to Python 3
A comprehensive appendix of all the syntactic and semantic changes in Python 3


This is the perfect resource for you if you need to port applications to Python 3, or if you like to jump into languages fast and get going right away.

By day, Mark Pilgrim is a developer advocate for open source and open standards. By night, he is a husband and father who lives in North Carolina with his wife, his two sons, and his big slobbery dog. He spends his copious free time sunbathing, skydiving, and making up autobiographical information.

Your First Python Program.- Native Datatypes.- Comprehensions.- Strings.- Regular Expressions.- Closures and Generators.- Classes and Iterators.- Advanced Iterators.- Unit Testing.- Refactoring.- Files.- XML.- Serializing Python Objects.- HTTP Web Services.- Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3.- Packaging Python Libraries.