Python Industrial Scripting Skills

Module 1: Python Introduction

• What’s Python?

• Why do people use Python?

• Some quotable quotes

• A Python history lesson

• Advocacy News

• What’s Python good for?

• What’s Python not good for?

• The features list

• Python portability

• Summary

Module 2: Using the Interpreter

• Python's Interactive Prompt

• Scripting

• Program Execution Model

• Program Architecture: modules

• How to run Python programs

• Using Python IDEs

Module 3: Python Scripting

• Python Scripts in Linux/Unix & Windows

• Whitespace Significance

• Line Termination

• Comments in Python

• Basic Output Generation

• Simple User Input

• Python Modules

• Module Search Paths

• Determining the System Search Path

• input()

Module 4: Working with Variables in Python

• Python Variables

• Naming Conventions & Rules

• Types as Objects

• Variable References & Garbage Collection

• Sequence Types

• Membership Statements

• List Iteration

• Sequence Assignments

• Mutable vs Immutable Objects

• Multi Target Assignments

Module 5: Numeric Operations in Python

• More About Python's Numeric Types

• Numeric Tools

• The Decimal Module

• Operator

• Arithmetic

• Logical

• Relational

• Bitwise

• Special Operators

• Operator Precedence

Module 6: Decision making & Looping

• Comparison Operations

• The if Statement

• The if Ternary Expression

• The while Loop

• The for Loop

Module 7: Debugging

• Dealing with syntax errors

• Dealing with runtime errors

• Dealing with logical errors

• Using unit tests

Module 8: Python Strings

• Generating Strings in Python

• Immutable

• Common String Methods

• Type Conversion in Python

• Formatting String Output

• Format Specifier

• Variable Substitution

• String Indexing

• String Slicing

• String Iteration

Module 9: Python's Tuples

• Immutable

• Common Tuples Methods

• Tuples Operations

• Tuples Indexing

• Tuples Slicing

• Tuples Iteration

• Multi-Dimensional Tuples (Matrices)

Module 10: Python's Lists

• Common List Methods

• The range() Function

• List Operations

• String Indexing

• String Slicing

• String Iteration

• Multi-Dimensional Lists (Matrices)

Module 11: Python List Comprehension

• Basic List Comprehensions

• Compound List Comprehensions

Module 12: Python set data type

• Understanding & using set data type

Module 13: Python Dictionaries

• Python Dictionaries

• Assigning Values to Dictionaries

• Dictionary Methods

• Dictionaries vs Lists & Tuples

• Dictionary Indexing

• Dictionary Iteration

Module 14: Basic Input/Output with Files

• Opening Files

• Working with Files

• Controlling Output Location

Module 15: Creating Python Functions

• Function Basics

• Defining Functions

• Function Polymorphism

• Argument Defaults

• Lambdas

• Local Variables

• Understanding __builtin__

• Preventing Variable Modifications

• Argument Matching Methods

• Keyword Argument Methods

Module 16: Classes and Objects

• Introduction to OOP using python

• Classes and class attributes

• Instances and instance attributes

• Binding and method invocation

• Composition, Sub-classing and Derivation

• Inheritance

• Built-in functions for classes, instances and other objects

• Privacy and Delegation

• An overview of built-in python classes and modules

Module 17: Modules & Packages

• Module Basics

• Packages

• Package Creation and Importing

• Using __all__ and _ Variables

• Using __name__

• Using third party modules

Module 18: Exceptions

• About Exceptions

• Learning how exceptions work in Depth

  • Handling exceptions

  • Raising exceptions

  • Catching exceptions

• Python's Default Exception Handler

• Using Try/Except/Else/Finally Exceptions

• Generating User Defined Exceptions

• Using Asserts

• Exception Classes

Module 19: Regular Expression in Python

• Using the re module

• Searching with regular expressions

• Replacing with regular expressions

• Reusing regular expressions with re.compile

• The match Function

• The search Function

• Regular-expression patterns

• Backreferences

• Translation

Module 20: SQLite Database access

• Creating Database Connection

• Creating Database & Table

• INSERT Operation

• READ Operation

• Update Operation

• DELETE Operation

• COMMIT Operation

• ROLLBACK Operation

Module 21: Network Programming

• What is Socket?

• The socket module

• Server Socket Methods

• Client Socket Methods

• Developing Server & Client scripts

Module 22: Multi-threaded Programming

• Starting a New Thread

• The Threading Module

• Creating Thread Using Threading Module

• Synchronizing Threads

Module 23: CSV files Processing

Module 24: JSON Processing

Module 25: Logging & Warning modules

Module 26: Converting Python script to exe