sneak preview "programming pythonthe short storyif you are like most peoplewhen you pick up book as large as this oneyou' like to know little about what you're going to be learning before you roll up your sleeves that' what this is for--it provides demonstration of some of the kinds of things you can do with pythonbefore getting into the details you won' learn the full story hereand if you're looking for complete explanations of the tools and techniques applied in this you'll have to read on to later parts of the book the point here is just to whet your appetitereview few python basicsand preview some of the topics to come to do thisi'll pick fairly simple application task--constructing database of records--and migrate it through multiple stepsinteractive codingcommand-line toolsconsole interfacesguisand simple web-based interfaces along the waywe'll also peek at concepts such as data representationobject persistenceand objectoriented programming (oop)explore some alternatives that we'll revisit later in the bookand review some core python ideas that you should be aware of before reading this book ultimatelywe'll wind up with database of python class instanceswhich can be browsed and changed from variety of interfaces 'll cover additional topics in this bookof coursebut the techniques you will see here are representative of some of the domains we'll explore later and againif you don' completely understand the programs in this don' worry because you shouldn' --not yet anyway this is just python demo we'll fill in the rest of the details soon enough for nowlet' start off with bit of fun