L8 Python

Programming with the Python Language

Objectives

Master the Python language basics

Modular approach
Object Oriented features
Exception mechanism

Understand the specifics of the Python interpreter

Course environment

Printed course material (in English).
One PC for two trainees.
Documentation and exercise solutions on CDROM.

Prerequisites

There is no specific prerequisites

First Day

Python overview

History
Installing Python
The Python interpreter
The Python command line

Python language basics

Comments and instructions
Variables, data and assignment

Identifiers and keywords
Basic types

Expressions and operators

Arithmetic operators
Relational operators
Choice operators

Simple input/output
Data structures

Sequences
Dictionaries
Sets

Python program structure

Complex instructions

Instruction sequences
Conditions and switches
Loops and iterators

Functions and procedures

Parameters
Local and global variables
Default parameter values
Calling functions

Name spaces
Modules

Creating modules
Importing functions from modules

Second Day

Advanced data structures

Character strings

Indexing and slicing
Concatenation and repetition
Unicode strings
Converting strings
Formatting
Character strings and byte strings
Lists
Advanced slicing
Insertion and extraction
List operations
List copy

Tuples
Dictionaries

Creating a dictionary
Dictionary operations
Keys and data types

Object oriented programming

Overview

Classes and instances
Attributes and operations
Relations and links
Inheritance and polymorphism

Rationale

Divide and conquer
The encapsulation paradigm
Modularity and security

Advantages

Increased security
Incremental development
Code reuse

Python as an Object Oriented Language

Python class design

Everything is an object

Defining classes

Instance and class attributes
Static and instance methods
Constructors

Third Day

Exceptions

Exceptions and errors

Error types
Exception types
Assertions

Handling exceptions

Try blocks
Except (catch) blocks
Getting information about the exception
The finally block

Raising exceptions
The with statement

Input-Output

User interaction

Writing to the terminal
Reading from the terminal

Files
Persistent objects

Explicit serializing with repr
Implicit serializing with pickle

Graphical interfaces in Python

A lot of graphic toolkits

PyQt
PyGTK
wxPython
Tkinter

Graphical object programming with Tkinter

Event-driven programming
The Tkinter widgets
Widget layout
Drawing graphics on a canvas
Creating a custom widget

Fourth Day

The Python standard library

The standard modules

sys
logging
urllib and json

Network programming

Sockets
Client and server programs

Multithread programming

Creation de threads
Sharing data and mutual exclusion
Synchronisation and communication

Advanced language features

Advanced functions

Returning multiple values
Getting list or tuple parameters

The special (__xxxx__) methods and attributes
Metaclasses
Callable objects
Containers

Creating a container
Indexing a container
Iterating through a container

New numeric types
Dynamic programming

Functions creating new functions (lambda)
Executing and evaluating character string

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