Gain insights into Python 3's new syntax, data types, strings, bytes, and iterators through interactive coding samples. Upgrade your Python skills with hands-on, real-time code modifications.

Are you ready to take the plunge into Python 3? You might be just getting started with Python or you might be someone who understands Python2 and now wants to upgrade to Python 3. This course is designed to help you achieve your goal faster.

Learn about the new syntax, data types, strings, bytes, iterators and much more with interactive coding samples. Execute code using interactive playgrounds, modify the code to see your changes in action and get yourself upgraded to the newest version of Python that is here to stay for a while.

This course is derived from Dive into Python 3 by Mark Pilgrim. See License for more details.
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Python 3: An interactive deep dive

1. [itertools module](https://docs.python.org/3.1/library/itertools.html)
2. [itertools — Iterator functions for efficient looping](https://pymotw.com/2/itertools/)
3. [Watch Raymond Hettinger’s “Easy AI with Python” talk at PyCon 2009](http://blip.tv/file/1947373/)
4. [Recipe 576615: Alphametics solver, Raymond Hettinger’s original alphametics solver for Python 2](http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576615/)
5. [More of Raymond Hettinger’s recipes in the ActiveState Code repository](http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/178123/)
6. [Alphametics on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_arithmetic)
7. [Alphametics Index](http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/alphamet/index.shtml), including [lots of puzzles](http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/alphamet/alphamet.shtml) and [a generator to make your own](http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/alphamet/alpha_gen.shtml)

Many thanks to Raymond Hettinger for agreeing to relicense his code so I could port it to Python 3 and use it as the basis for this chapter.

Your First Python Program

Native Datatypes

Comprehensions

Strings

Regular Expressions

Closures & Generators

Classes & Iterators

Advanced Iterators

Unit Testing

Refactoring

Files

XML

Serializing Python Objects

HTTP Web Services

Case Study: Porting chardet to Python 3

Packaging Python Libraries

Appendix : Where To Go From Here

Further Reading