Python Basics
Introduction to Python - Syntax, working with Shell commands, Files, Text Processing, and more...
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Chapters
- Introduction
- Installation, Hello World example, Python Interpreter, Python Standard Library
- Number and String data types
- Numbers, String, Constants, Built-in Operators
- Functions
- def, print function, range function, type function, Variable Scope
- Getting User input
- Integer input, Floating point input, String input
- Executing external commands
- Calling Shell commands, Calling Shell commands with expansion, Getting command output and redirections
- Control Structures
- Condition checking, if, for, while, continue and break
- Lists
- Assigning List variables, Slicing and Modifying Lists, Copying Lists, List Methods and Miscellaneous, Looping, List Comprehension, Getting List as user input, Getting random items from list
- Sequence, Set and Dict data types
- Strings, Tuples, Set, Dictionary
- Text Processing
- String methods, Regular Expressions, Pattern matching and extraction, Search and Replace, Compiling Regular Expressions, Further Reading on Regular Expressions
- File handling
- open function, Reading files, Writing to files, Inplace editing with fileinput
- Command line arguments
- Known number of arguments, Varying number of arguments, Using program name in code, Command line switches
- Exception Handling and Debugging
- Exception Handling, Syntax check, pdb, Importing program
- Docstrings
- Style guide, Palindrome example
- Testing
- assert statement, Using assert to test a program, Using unittest framework, Using unittest.mock to test user input and program output, Other testing frameworks
- Further Reading
- Standard topics not covered, Useful links on coding, Python extensions
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Acknowledgements
- automatetheboringstuff for getting me started with Python
- /r/learnpython/ - helpful forum for beginners and experienced programmers alike
- Devs and Hackers - helpful slack group
- Weekly Coders, Hackers & All Tech related thread - for suggestions and critique
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