Python: Tour-De-Force (2022-11-07 - 2022-11-10, 2022-12-01)

Training Information

Material

• Python Programming: From Absolute Beginner to Advanced Productivity

Source Code

• Github. This is a private project; to view it you must be a collaborator.

Notebook

• Structure

• Whole notebook

• Download

Up Front: Project Management

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

• Python Package Index

• Virtual Environments

• pytest Introduction, By Example

Object Oriented Programming: Classes

• From Object Oriented Programming

  • Constructor

  • Classes And Dictionaries

  • Methods

  • str() And repr()

  • Properties

  • collections.namedtuple

Exercise Series: CSV

• CSV Files

• Exercise: Read CSV File (csv.reader)

• Exercise: Read CSV File (csv.dictreader)

• Exercise: Refactoring - Extract CSV Reading Into Function (csv.reader)

• Exercise: Refactoring - Extract CSV Reading Into Function (csv.dictreader)

Missing Pieces: Encoding, Unit Testing

• Encoding

• Unit Testing (pytest vs. unittest)

  • The unittest Module

    • unittest sample suite (Private Github project)

    • pytest sample suite (Private Github project)

  • pytest Introduction, By Example

Exercise Series: CSV, JSON

• Exercise: Refactoring - Extract Both CSV Formats Into Module

• Exercise: Convert User Record To JSON And Back

• Exercise: Away From Raw Dictionaries

Iteration, Generators

• Iteration (Recap) (see notebook)

• Comprehensions (List, Dictionary, Set)

• Generators, The yield Keyword

  • Iteration, Comprehensions, and Generators

  • Generator Expressions

Operator Overloading

• Operator Overloading

Going Dynamic: type(), exec()

• type(), exec(). Revisit class dictionary, and build class Person dynamically. See demo here (Private Github project)

More OO: Inheritance, Abstract Base Classes

• From Object Oriented Programming

  • Inheritance

  • Abstract Base Classes (abc), And Duck Typing

Group Project Kickoff

Data Structures Recap

• Sequential Datatypes

• Indexing and Slicing

• More About Lists

• More About Dictionaries

Miscellaneous Livehacking

• Subprocess

  • Livehacking

  • Documentation: subprocess — Subprocess management

• Network programming

  • Livehacked client

  • Livehacked server

  • Documentation: socket — Low-level networking interface

Function Arguments, Closures, Decorators

• Positional and Keyword Arguments (Livehacking)

• Closures (Livehacking)

• Decorators (Livehacking)

Exceptions, with

• Exception Handling (Livehacking)

• Context Managers: The with Statement (Livehacking)

Package Management

• Virtual Environments

• Package Installation (setuptools)

Videos

Beginner

• Python Quick Tip: F-Strings - How to Use Them and Advanced String Formatting, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial for Beginners 4: Lists, Tuples, and Sets, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial for Beginners 5: Dictionaries - Working with Key-Value Pairs, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial for Beginners 7: Loops and Iterations - For/While Loops, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial for Beginners 8: Functions, by Corey Schafer

• 10 Python Tips and Tricks For Writing Better Code, by Corey Schafer

• Python Tutorial: Using Try/Except Blocks for Error Handling, by Corey Schafer

Advanced

• Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python, by Raymond Hettinger

• Python Tutorial: Decorators - Dynamically Alter The Functionality Of Your Functions, by Corey Schafer

• Publishing (Perfect) Python Packages on PyPi

Fun

• Built in Super Heroes. David Beazley in an entertaining keynote to the “PyData Chicago 2016” conference. He has a number of very good and entertaining (and very advanced) videos. You have to spend an entire evening with him though.

• Iterations of Evolution: The Unauthorized Biography of the For-Loop. David Beazley giving lessons in history. How for evolved from the beginning until where we are today.

• The Fun of Reinvention - David Beazley - Pycon Israel 2017. David Beazley with an entertaining keynote about typing, type annotations, metaprogramming, contracts.

• Keynote - David Beazley. David Beazley live coding a Web Assembly interpreter. PyCon India 2019.

• David Beazley: Generators: The Final Frontier - PyCon 2014: David Beazley again a bit (a whopping four hours) more precise on that topic.