Python - Basics

This new three days training module lets the trainees know about the potential of Python as a programming language. Open to people who already know about any structured language (like C, C++ or Java), this course teaches how de design Python scripts, perform data treatments and how to maintain a Python script collection.

Module 1: Python Overview

• Python History
• Available IDE (s)

Module 2: Python object types

• Numbers
• Strings
• Containers
• Tuples, Lists
• Dictionaries, Set
• Type properties

Module 3: Good practices

• Writing rules, naming
• Annotations
• Doc strings
• Comments
• Structuring a Python file

Module 4: The instructions

• Execution of a Python program, LGI rule
• Sequential, conditional, loop programming
• Definition and call of functions
• Functions:
• definition
• call
• parameter management
• returned values

Module 5: Error handling

• Exceptions, mechanism of implementation
• The traceback

Module 6: The standard Python library

• The built-in functions, and those on the containers: map, filter, zip
• The sys modules, os
• The datetime, time modules

Module 7: Object-Oriented Programming

• Classes
• The object, instance of a class
• The class and instance attributes
• The structure of a Python object
• functions dir, vars, the variable __dict__
• functions getattr, setattr, delattr
• __slots__ interest
• Simple, multiple inheritance

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Know all the possibilities of Python,
• Be able to perform "system" scripts, data processing, simple supervision,
• Be able to maintain a fleet of Python scripts