Course Content
Introduction to Python & Python Fundamentals
- Python Interpreter and its Environment
Data Types and their related functions
- Numbers
- Strings
- Unicode Strings
Python variables and basic data structures
- Declaration of variables
- Arrays, Lists and Tuples
- Dictionary and Sets
- List and array slicing
Operators
- Arithmetic Operators
- Assignment Operators
- Comparison Operators
- Logical (or Relational) Operators
- Conditional (or ternary) Operators
Conditional statements/Control Structures
- If Statements
- While construct
- For Statements
- Looping Techniques over arrays, dictionary, etc. (ref: module3, day1)
- The range() Function
- Break and continue Statements, and else clauses on Loops
- Pass Statements
- Error Handling
Functions
- Local variables
- Default Argument Values
- Returning Values
- Keyword & Positional Arguments
- Arbitrary Argument Lists
- Unpacking Argument Lists
- Lambda Expressions
- Documentation Strings
Modules
- Executing modules as scripts
- The Module Search Path
- Building modules
- Running a module from the command line
- "Compiled" Python files
- Standard Modules
- The dir() Function
- Packages
- Importing * From a Package
- Intra-package References
- Packages in Multiple Directories
File handling and other OS interactions
- Opening a File
- Reading from a file, writing to a file
- Closing a File
- Reading directories & other basic directory operations (getcwd, mkdir, chdir etc.)
- Renaming & deleting files
Exceptions
- Handling Exceptions
- Raising Exceptions
- User-defined Exceptions
- Defining Clean-up Actions
- Predefined Clean-up Actions
- try-finally clause
Regular expressions
- What is regular expression?
- Matching characters
- Compiling regular expressions
- Strings and Slices
- Modifying Strings
- Use of triple quotes
Introduction to OOP
- Class Definition Syntax
- Class Objects, Instance Objects, Method Objects; Instantiation
- Inheritance
- Data Member - Class variable/Instance Variable
- Function overloading
- Operator overloading
List Comprehensions
- Basic List Comprehensions
Lambda Forms
- Introduction to Lambda Forms
Pickle Module
- The Pickle Module
File Wildcards
- File lists from directory wildcard searches (glob module)
Command Line Arguments
- How to process command line arguments (sys module)
Error Output Redirection and Program Termination
- sys.stdin, sys.stdout and sys.stderr attributes
- sys.exit() - program termination
Various standard libraries, as time permits
- shutil (for daily file and directory management tasks)
- math (underlying C library functions for floating point math)
- random (tools for making random selections)
- datetime (access and manipulate dates and times)
- timeit (to time operations)
- urllib2 (internet access)
- smtplib (mail access)
