Python (2026-02-02 - 2026-02-04)

Course Info

• Material: Python Programming

• Original Agenda: Agenda: Python (2026-02-02 - 2026-02-04)

Setup

• Python Installation

• Visual Studio Code for Python Programming

Datatypes

• Blahblah

• Hello World

• Running Python Programs

• Syntax etc.

• Commandline Arguments (sys.argv)

• Variables

• Datatypes

• Compound Datatypes

• Boolean

Exercises

• Exercise: Mixed List (Interactive Interpreter)

• Exercise: Mixed List (Executable Program)

• Exercise: Digit to English Word

More On Datatypes

• Sequential Datatypes

• Indexing and Slicing

• References, (Im)mutability

• More About Strings

• Miscellaneous String Methods

• More About Lists

• More About Dictionaries

• More About Sets

• Comprehensions (List, Dictionary, Set)

Control Flow: if, while, for

• The if Statement

• while Loops

• Exercise: Exercise: Primeness (while)

• for Loops

• Exercise: Exercise: Primeness (for)

Functions And Generators

Functions

• Functions (Slideshow)

• Functions: Global and Local Scope (Livehacking Screenplay)

• Exercise: Exercise: Function: uniq()

Generators

• The range Function

• Iteration, Comprehensions, and Generators

• Iteration, Generators, And yield

• Exercise: Exercise: Generator: uniq()

Encoding, And File I/O

• Encoding

• File I/O

• Exercise: Exercise: Eliminate Empty/Comment-Only Lines

• Exercise: Exercise: Parsing /etc/passwd

Modules, And The import Statement

• Modules and Packages

• Exercise: modularize the outcome of Exercise: Parsing /etc/passwd

Object Oriented Programming, And Exceptions

From Object Oriented Programming …

• Classes And Dictionaries

• Constructor

• Methods

• str() And repr()

• Properties

• collections.namedtuple

• Inheritance

• Operator Overloading

• Abstract Base Classes (abc), And Duck Typing

Exceptions too, are objects:

• Exception Handling

Closures And Decorators

• Positional and Keyword Arguments

• Closures

• Decorators

Context Managers (The with Statement)

• Context Managers: The with Statement

Parallelizing Code (Various Ways To Be Async)

• Multithreading

  • threading.Thread, using time.sleep(): two seperate function for interval, then parameterized

  • Termination

    • running flag

    • daemon

    • KeyboardInterrupt, signal.pause()

  • Thread safety, Lock, with

• Multiprocessing: demo

• asyncio: demo

Project Work: Virtual Environments, Unit Testing, PyPI

From Python: Project/Package Management,

• Python Package Index

• Virtual Environments

• Packaging, PyPI Upload (Link Collection)

• PyTest

Big Data: Pandas, And Databases

From Pandas

• Pandas: Basics (DataFrame And Series)

• Pandas: Selecting Rows (And Columns) With iloc[]

• Pandas: Selecting Rows (And Columns) With loc[]

• Pandas: Indexes

• Pandas: Filters

• Pandas: Adding/Modifying Columns

• Pandas: Adding Rows

From Databases

• DBAPI 2

• DBAPI 2: sqlite3

• DBAPI 2: PostgreSQL

Performance and large datasets: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/pandas-sql-chunking/