Python Scripting DeepDive

Recommended duration: 2 days, 8 hours a day [16 hours]

Pre-requisites:
* Participants should be comfortable with the following:
- Basic and working knowledge of the Pyton is mandatory
- If new to the Python, then the participants would have the taken the co
urse on Python Fundamentals before this.
Training mode:
* The Training program will be demonstration oriented.
* Most of the concepts will be taught by demonstrating Code and the particip
ants can practice the same.
Lab requirements:
* As the training is highly lab oriented, each participant
Attending the training program must be provided with a
Computer with the following software installed:
- Windows or Linux with ActivePython 2.7+ installed
- Pycharm Community edition
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Python IDE
* Pycharm Community Edition or Eclipse with Pydev
Classes and Objects
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Introduction to OOP using python

Classes and class attributes
Instances and instance attributes
Binding and method invocation
Composition, Subclassing and Derivation
Inheritance
Operator Overloading
Built-in functions for classes, instances and other objects
Meta classes and Descriptors
Context Managers

Creating Python Functions

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Lambdas
Argument Matching Methods
Arguments Matching Methods
Keyword Argument Methods

Exceptions
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About Exceptions
Python's Default Exception Handler
Using Try/Except/Finally Exceptions
Generating User Defined Exceptions

* Exception Examples
* Using Asserts
* Exception Classes
Python Modules
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Module Basics
creating Custom modules
Using third party modules
Useful Standard Library Modules

Testing and Debugging

* Using the unittest module for writing testcases
* Using pdb debugger framework
* Tracing python statement execution using trace framework
Python and XML
* Working with XML
* DOM vs Sax vs ElementTree
* Introducing ElementTree
* Parsing XML
* Navigating the document
* Creating a new XML document
Multithreading in Python
* Introduction to threads and processes
* Creating and managing threads
* An overview of thread and threading modules
* Concurrency management using Lock, Semaphore, Conditional Variable
* Producer Consumer algorithm using Queue

Standard Python modules

* Using the sys module
* sys.argv, sys.path, sys.version
* An overview on __builtin__ and __future__ modules
* Using the os module
* Filesystem/directory functions
* Basic process management functions
* Recursive directory iteration using os.walk
* Using the os.path module
* Determining basename, dirname, path manipulation
* File type/size/timestamp and other stat determination
* Using the time and datetime modules
* Using random, shutil, pprint, hashlib, md5, optparse
and logging modules
Python Best Practices
* General concepts
* Idioms
* Zen of Python
* PEP 8
* Conventions