Pythonic Python Part I: The Basics

This is Pythonic Python - Part I of a complete Python course for programmers, in four parts.

The focus, besides learning Python, is learning Pythonic idioms so that your code is beautiful, easy to read and modify, and fast-running.

The Syllabus:

Part I - The Python Basics

Make yourself useful.

• lab 01 Birds Eye View
• lab 02 Branching and Looping
• lab 03 Input and Exceptions
• lab 04 Formatting Strings
• lab 05 Functions
• lab 06 import
• lab 07 Attribute Scope
• lab 08 Flexible Functions
• lab 09 Sequence Slicing
• lab 10 Sequence Accumulating
• lab 11 Sequence Differences
• lab 12 list Facilities
• lab 13 Sequences And Mutability
• lab 14 sys Library

Part II The Buzz

Heavy-hitting, time-saving, fun facilities.

• lab 15 Reuse Trick
• lab 16 list Scope Issue
• lab 17 Arguments And Mutability
• lab 18 list Comprehensions
• lab 19 Functional Programming
• lab 20 from importing
• lab 21 Dictionaries
• lab 22 Dictionary Marvels
• lab 23 Variable Arguments Protocols
• lab 24 raise An Exception
• lab 25 File IO
• lab 26 os Module
• lab 27 Packages
• lab 28 Dynamic Code
• lab 29 Decorators
• lab 30 Generators

Part III Pythonic OOP

So brilliant, you might need shades.

• lab 31 Classes
• lab 32 Containment
• lab 33 Inheritance
• lab 34 Multiple Inheritance
• lab 35 Magical Powers
• lab 36 Privacy And Introspection
• lab 37 Class Attributes and Scope
• lab 38 New Style Classes
• lab 39 Iteration Support
• lab 40 Attribute Control
• lab 41 Static and Class Methods
• lab 42 Context Manager

Part IV The Expert

Know it all.

• lab 43 Deep Copies
• lab 44 Piping With subprocess
• lab 45 File Pattern globbing
• lab 46 Timing Your Code
• lab 47 unittest Frameworks
• lab 48 Option Parsing Frameworks
• lab 49 Catching Exceptions
• lab 50 Raising Exceptions
• lab 51 Inventing Exceptions
• lab 52 Namespace Review
• lab 53 Pitfalls
• lab 54 Finding Modules