Python Advanced (2023-11-22 - 2023-22-24)#

Day 1: Basics#

Before noon, we quickly ran through introductory material:

• Variables

• Datatypes

• Compound Datatypes

• Sequential Datatypes

• Indexing and Slicing

• The range Function

• More About Strings

Also covered yield, and the Iterator Protocol:

• The Iterator Protocol

• Iteration, Comprehensions, and Generators

Afternoon exercise:

• Exercise: Function: uniq()

More Python:

• String Formatting

• Miscellaneous String Methods

• Encoding

• More About Lists

• More About Dictionaries

• More About Sets

• References, (Im)mutability

• File I/O (including some with coverage)

Day 2: Group Project, And Object Oriented Programming#

Morning wakeup:

• Partial tuple unpacking with *

• Functions: Global and Local Scope (Livehacking Screenplay)

Project Management

• Virtual Environments

• Python Package Index

From Object Oriented Programming: necessary material before we can start hacking

• Classes And Dictionaries

• Constructor

• Methods

Hackin’ da project …

• Dictionary comprehension in SensorConfig

• pytest fixtures: tmpdir

• AcquisitionLoop test, using MockSink

• Derive MockSink from list

Day 3: OO, Hacking, Python Specials#

From Object Oriented Programming: all the rest

• str() And repr()

• Properties

• collections.namedtuple

• Inheritance

• Operator Overloading

• Abstract Base Classes (abc), And Duck Typing

Project: lets create interfaces

• Exception Handling

• Context Managers: The with Statement

Closures, Decorators And More

• Positional and Keyword Arguments

• Closures

• Decorators

Videos#

• Grazer Linuxtage 2023: Pointless Blinking With Python, asyncio, and libgpiod (and a Raspberry Pi of Course). Jörg Faschingbauer, covering

  • GPIO using libgpiod (Python binding)

  • asyncio — Asynchronous I/O

  • Python decorators

  See talk notes, screenplay, etc. for more

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Raymond Hettinger - Super considered super! - PyCon 2015. Raymond Hettinger, revolving around super() and MRO.

• Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017: Raymond Hettinger covering most if not all aspects and possiblities of concurrency. Very informative, very concise, covering

  • Multithreading

  • Multiprocessing

  • Async; I didn’t even mention that. asyncio. Me big fan.