Python - Basics

Before attending this course, students must know and master a structured programming language like C, C++, Java.

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

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