About this book
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The book is written in `reStructuredText <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html>`_
(reST) syntax and compiled by `Sphinx <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>`_.

I started to write in the 25th September 2010.

License
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This book is distributed under the `CC BY-SA 3.0 license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>`_.

Thanks to
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Reviewers: Alexander Belopolsky, Antoine Pitrou, Feth Arezki and Nelle
Varoquaux, Natal Ngétal.


Notations
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 * ``0bBBBBBBBB``: 8 bit unsigned number written in binary, first digit is the most
   significant. For example, ``0b10000000`` is 128.
 * 0xHHHH: number written in hexadecimal, e.g. 0xFFFF is 65535.
 * ``0xHH 0xHH ...``: byte sequence with bytes written in hexadecimal, e.g.
   ``0xC3 0xA9`` (2 bytes) is the character é (U+00E9) :ref:`encoded <encode>` to UTF-8.
 * U+HHHH: Unicode character with its code point written in hexadecimal. For example, U+20AC is
   the "euro sign" character, code point 8,364. Big code point are written with more than 4
   hexadecimal digits, e.g. U+10FFFF is the biggest (unallocated) code point of
   :ref:`Unicode Character Set <ucs>` 6.0: 1,114,111.
 * A—B: range including start and end. Examples:

   * ``0x00``\ —\ ``0x7F`` is the range 0 through 127 (128 bytes)
   * U+0000—U+00FF is the range 0 through 255 (256 characters)

 * {U+HHHH, U+HHHH, ...}: a :ref:`character string <str>`. For example,
   {U+0041, U+0042, U+0043} is the string "abc" (3 characters).