Python II: Applied Python Training

February 3rd, 2010 | Python

Python refresher

Data types
Sequences
Mapping types
Program structure
Files and console I/O
Conditionals
Loops
Builtins

OS Services

The os module
Environment variables
Launching external commands
Walking directory trees
Paths, directories, and filenames
Working with file systems
Dates and times

Pythonic Programming

The Zen of Python
Common idioms
Lambda functions
List comprehensions
Generator expressions
String formatting

Program development

Analyzing programs
Using pylint
Testing code
Using unittest
Debugging

Creating modules

Initialization code
Namespaces
Executing modules as scripts
Documentation
Packages and name resolution
Naming conventions
Using import

Classes

Defining classes
Instance methods and data
Initializers
Class methods
Static methods
Inheritance
Multiple inheritance
Pseudo-private variables

GUI programming

Graphical programming overview
About Tk
The TkInter module
Creating widgets
Packing widgets
Fonts, colors, and other widget attributes
Starting the application
Bindings and events

Database access

The DB API
Available Interfaces
Connecting to a server
Creating and executing a cursor
Fetching data
Parameterized statements
Metadata
Transaction control

Threads

Why use threads?
Threads are different
Variables are shared
Python threads modules
The threading module
The queue module
The python thread manager
Debugging threaded programs

CGI

The cgi module
URL encoding
Calling CGI scripts
CGI Environment variables
The FieldStorage object
Sending the HTTP header
Outputting HTML
HTML from templates

Network Programming

Sockets
Clients
Servers
Application protocols
Forking servers
Threaded servers
Binary data
The struct module

XML

Working with XML
DOM: The Document Object Model
Getting a DOM tree
Document nodes
Walking the tree
SAX: The simple API for XML
Creating a SAX reader

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