Purpose

Learn the basics of the Python programming language

Objectives

Software developers, QA, DevOps engineers, and system adminstrators interested in adopting Python

Students should be familiar with text editors and running commands from the command-line.

Experience in some other programming language is helpful but not required.

Programming in Python overview
- Introduction/review of programming concepts
- Types and typing
- Python and other programming languages
- Python variables
Getting Python up and running
- Installing Python
- Installing Jupyter notebook
Python basics
- Literals & operators
- Control structures: if, for, while
- Creating functions in Python
- Using modules in Python
- Working with files
Python collections
- String processing in Python
- Tuples, lists, sets, dicts
- List, set, and dict comprehensions
Python exceptions
- Common exceptions
- Handling exceptions: try, except, finally
Developer modules
- Command-line processing: argparse
- Automating external tools: os, sys, subprocess, shutil
- File and IO management: tempfile, glob, fnmatch
Python modules and packages
- Using modules: how the import statement works
- Packages
- Creating modular applications
String and text processing
- Advanced string processing
- String formatting using format, interpolation, f-strings, and string templates
- StringIO
- Regular expression overview
Introduction to Object-oriented programming in Python
- Creating classes
- Using methods
- "Magic" methods and protocols
- Information hiding and conventions
- Basic inheritance

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