Course Outline
Course Outline
1. An Overview of Python
What is Python?
Python Timeline
Advantages/Disadvantages of Python
Getting help with pydoc
2. The Python Environment
Starting Python
Using the interpreter
Running a Python script
Python scripts on UNIX/Windows
Editors and IDEs
3. Getting Started
Using variables
Built-in functions
Strings
Numbers
Converting among types
Writing to the screen
Command line parameters
4. Flow Control
About flow control
White space
Conditional expressions
Relational and Boolean operators
While loops
Alternate loop exits
5. Sequences
About sequences
Lists and list methods
Tuples
Indexing and slicing
Iterating through a sequence
Sequence functions, keywords, and operators
List comprehensions
Generator Expressions
Nested sequences
6. Working with files
File overview
Opening a text file
Reading a text file
Writing to a text file
Reading and writing raw (binary) data
Converting binary data with struct
7. Dictionaries and Sets
About dictionaries
Creating dictionaries
Iterating through a dictionary
About sets
Creating sets
Working with sets
8. Functions
Defining functions
Parameters
Global and local scope
Nested functions
Returning values
9. Sorting
The sorted() function
Alternate keys
Lambda functions
Sorting collections
Using operator.itemgetter()
Reverse sorting
10. Errors and Exception Handling
Syntax errors
Exceptions
Using try/catch/else/finally
Handling multiple exceptions
Ignoring exceptions
11. Modules and Packages
The import statement
Module search path
Creating modules
Using packages
Function and module aliases
12. Classes
About o-o programming
Defining classes
Constructors
Methods
Instance data
Properties
Class methods and data
13. Regular Expressions
RE syntax overview
RE Objects
Searching and matching
Compilation flags
Groups and special groups
Replacing text
Splitting strings
14. The standard library
The sys module
Launching external programs
Math functions
Random numbers
The string module
Reading CSV data
15. Dates and times
Working with dates and times
Translating timestamps
Parsing dates from text
Formatting dates
Calendar data
16. Working with the file system paths, directories, and filenames
Checking for existence
Permissions and other file attributes
Walking directory trees
Creating filters with fileinput
Using shutil for file operations
17 – Advanced data handling
Defaultdict and Counter
Prettyprinting data structures
Compressed archives (zip, gzip, tar, etc.)
Persistent data
17. Network services
Grabbing web content
Sending email
Using SSH for remote access
Using FTP
18. Writing real-life applications
Parsing command-line options
Detecting the current platform
Trapping signals
Implementing logging
Python Timeline
Advantages/Disadvantages of Python
Getting help with pydoc