Python 3 Programming

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Python 3

• What is Python?

• What is Python 3?

• Why Python?

• Performance downsides

• The community

• Running Python interactively

• Python scripts

• Python help

• Anatomy of a Python script

• Modules

• Functions and built-ins

Chapter 2: Fundamental Variables

• Python is Object Oriented

• Python variables

• Variable names

• Type specific methods

• Operators and type

• Python types

• Switching types

• Python lists introduced

• Python tuples introduced

• Python dictionaries introduced

Chapter 3: Flow Control

• Python conditionals

• Indentation

• What is truth?

• Boolean and logical operators

• Chained comparisons

• Sequence and collection tests

• Object types

• A note on Exception Handling

• While loops

• Loop control statements

• For loops

• enumerate

• Counting 'for' loops

• Zipping through multiple lists

• Conditional expressions

• Unconditional flow control

Chapter 4: String Handling

• Python 3 strings

• The print function

• Cooking strings

• String concatenation

• 'Quotes'

• String methods

• String tests

• String formatting

• Other string formatting aids

• Slicing a string

• String methods - split and join

Chapter 5: Collections

• Python types - reminder

• Useful tuple operations

• Python lists

• Tuple and list slicing

• Extended iterable unpacking

• Adding items to a list

• Removing items by position

• Removing list items by content

• Sorting

• List methods

• Sets

• Exploiting sets

• Set operators

• Python dictionaries

• Dictionary values

• Removing items from a dictionary

• Dictionary methods

• View objects

Chapter 6: Regular Expressions

• Python regular expressions

• Elementary extended RE meta-characters

• Regular expression objects

• Regular expression substitution

• Regular expression split

• Matching alternatives

• Anchors

• Class shortcuts

• Flags

• Repeat quantifiers

• Quantifiers

• Parentheses groups

• Back-references

• Global matches

Chapter 7: Data Storage and File Handling

• New file objects

• Reading files into Python

• Reading tricks

• Filter programs - fileinput module

• Binary mode

• Writing to files from Python

• Standard streams

• More tricks

• Random access

• Python pickle persistence

• Pickle protocols

• Build some shelves

• Compression

• Database interface overview

• Example - SQLite from Python

Chapter 8: Functions

• Python functions

• Function parameters

• Variadic functions

• Assigning default values to parameters

• Named (keyword) parameters

• Enforcing named parameters

• Returning objects from a function

• Variables in functions

• Nested functions

• Variables in nested functions

• Function documentation

• Lamdba functions

• Lambda as a sort key

• Lambda in re.sub

Chapter 9: Advanced Collections

• Advanced list functions - filter

• List comprehensions

• Set and dictionary comprehensions

• Lazy lists

• Generators

• Generator objects and next - coroutines

• List comprehensions as generators

• Copying collections - problem

• Copying collections - slice solution?

• Copying collections - deepcopy solution

Chapter 10: Modules and Packages

• What are modules and packages?

• Multiple source files

• How does Python find a module?

• Importing a module

• Importing names

• Directories as packages

• Writing a module

• Module documentation

• Testing a module

• Python debugger

• Python profiler

• Distributing libraries - distutils

Chapter 11: Classes and OOP

• Classes and OOP

• Object-Oriented terminology

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Using objects

• Defining classes

• Defining methods

• Constructing an object

• Special methods

• Operator overload special methods

• Properties

• Properties and decorators

• Class methods

• Inheritance

• Inheritance terminology

Chapter 12: Error Handling and Exceptions

• Writing to stderr

• Controlling warnings

• Exception handling

• Exception syntax

• Multiple exceptions

• Exception arguments

• The finally block

• Order of execution

• The Python exception hierarchy

• A common mistake

• The raise statement

• Raising our own Exceptions

• assert

Chapter 13: Multitasking

• Family life

• Creating a process from Python

• Old interface examples

• Waiting for a child

• Using the subprocess module

• The subprocess.Popen class

• Running a basic process

• Capt