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In our last article we covered the history of Python, the print command, working with strings and variables, and how to comment your code. In this episode we will learn how to retrieve input from users, work with variables, and if you are lucky, Loops.

Python has very little to do with Eric Idle or John Cleese. It's an interpreted, object-oriented scripting language. Designed for clarity and simplicity, it's useful for creating large programs and for gluing pieces of other programs together. Keep reading to add Python to your personal programmer's toolkit.

Smart phones are becoming a common sight nowadays. Above all, the "smartness" of smart phones come from the fact that they can be programmed. In other words, one can develop custom applications for these mobile devices and use them in the devices. This article covers the basics of developing these kinds of applications in a variant of Python.

Bluetooth is a way to connect devices wirelessly. This technology has a variety of uses. Python is an easy to learn scripting language that has been growing in popularity. The two can work well together, as will be explained in this article.

In this conclusion to a six-part series, you will learn about the user help tools that come with the PyMailGUI client, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book Programming Python, Third Edition, written by Mark Lutz (O'Reilly, 2006; ISBN: 0596009259) Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

In the fifth part of a six-part series, we take a look at the main module for PyMailGUI. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book Programming Python, Third Edition, written by Mark Lutz (O'Reilly, 2006; ISBN: 0596009259) Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

Continuing our tour through PyMailGUI, this week we show you how to delete email, explain POP message numbers and synchronization, and finally begin talking about the code. This article, the fourth of six parts, is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book Programming Python, Third Edition, written by Mark Lutz (O'Reilly, 2006; ISBN: 0596009259). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

In this third part of a six-part series, you will learn how to send and view email with attachments with the PyMailGUI client, as well as how to accomplish other tasks. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of Programming Python, Third Edition, written by Mark Lutz (O'Reilly, 2006; ISBN: 0596009259). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

In last week's article, we introduced the PyMailGUI client, part of a Python program that sends, receives, composes, and parses Internet email messages. This week, we'll begin walking you through a PyMailGUI demo. This article, the second of six parts, is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book Programming Python, Third Edition, written by Mark Lutz (O'Reilly, 2006; ISBN: 0596009259). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

PyMailGUI is a Python program that sends, receives, composes, and parses Internet email messages. This article, the first of six parts, introduces the PyMailGUI client. It is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book Programming Python, Third Edition, written by Mark Lutz (O'Reilly, 2006; ISBN: 0596009259). Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O'Reilly Media.

Different languages use different kinds of data structures to handle the way data is arranged in memory. This article looks at two of the more common data structures used by Python.

In an earlier article I discussed accessing COM components from within Python programs. However, I left a question dangling, namely, can COM servers be created in Python, and can they be accessed by applications created in other languages or platforms such as Visual Basic? The answer is an emphatic yes.

You may have experienced some headaches in the past when creating GUIs to gather user input. Python makes this process easy with input widgets. Keep reading to learn more.

This article shows you how to call COM components from Python, and shows you how to use COM extensions to access the mail merge functionalities of MS Word in Python.

SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained SQL database engine. This article examines pysqlite, one of a number of libraries in Python, that is used as an interface with SQLite.