Python - Intermediate

Python Syntax Review   

• Ensuring a proper setup of Python
• Review basic Python syntax
• If/then/else & loops
• Functions and exceptions
• Decorators

Generators and iterators   

• iter(), iter, and next()
• Understanding the yield statement
• Creating generator expressions
• Loop comprehensions

Context managers   

• What is a context manage
• The 'with' statement
• Working with a context manager: contextlib.closing, enter and exit
• Using contextlib.contextmanager

Testing Python   

• Review of key texting concepts: unit, functional, integration, etc.
• Overview of test-driven development concepts
• Writing tests unit test with a test-first approach
• Unit testing with the unittest module
• Creating test suites with nosetests as a test collector
• Performing simple code coverage analysis with coverage

Introducing logging   

• Importance of logging
• Basic logging concepts within Python
• Using basicConig to set up loggers, handlers, formatters
• Using ?leConig for more complex logger configurations

Threading   

• Threading v. multi-processing
• Core Threading Concepts
• Key threading constructs
• Building a simple multi-thread program
• Preventing data corruption through mutex and events for synchronization
• Using Queue.Queue

Multiprocessing   

• Threading v. multi-processing (part II)
• Core Multiprocessing Concepts
• Using the subprocess module
• Using the multiprocessing module

Network Programming   

• Review of network programming concepts and protocol layers
• Network programming support within Python
• Fetching web resources with urllib/urllib2
• Sending email with smtplib
• Creating client-server like applications using sockets
• Creating a simple JSON-REST client

Introduction to Web application development with Django