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Advanced Python Programming

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Duration: 5 days
Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 5 days
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Overview

This comprehensive advanced-level course on Python programming involves hands-on lab exercises, engaging lectures, demos and activities to ensure participants get a thorough understanding of the concepts being discussed. The course leads participants through a series of progressively advanced topics such as OS services, modules, unit tests, databases, XML data, packages, meta programming, network programming, threads, etc. The course is a skill-centric course, focusing on helping participants master advanced Python and web development skills, the latest techniques and coding practices. The course does not cover Python fundamentals.

What You'll Learn

  • Leverage OS services
  • Code graphical interfaces for applications
  • Build modules
  • Create and run unit tests
  • Define classes
  • Working with network services
  • Query databases
  • Handle XML data

Curriculum

  • Data types
  • Sequences
  • Mapping types
  • Program structure
  • File and console I/O
  • Conditionals
  • Loops
  • Built-ins

  • The OS module
  • Environment variables
  • Launching external commands
  • Walking directory trees
  • Paths, directories and file names
  • Working with file systems
  • Dates and times

  • Basic date and time classes
  • Different time formats
  • Converting between formats
  • Formatting dates and times
  • Parsing date/time information

  • What is Binary Data?
  • Binary vs text
  • Using the Struct module

  • The Zen of Python
  • Common idioms
  • Lambda functions
  • List comprehensions
  • Generator expressions
  • String formatting

  • Four types of function parameters
  • Four levels of name scoping
  • Single/multi dispatch
  • Relative imports
  • Using __init__ effectively
  • Documentation best practices
    • Implicit properties
    • Globals() and locals()
    • Working with attributes
    • The inspect module
    • Decorators
    • Monkey patching

    • Class/static data and methods
    • Inheritance (or composition)
    • Abstract base classes
    • Implementing protocols (context, iterator, etc.) with special methods

    • Implicit properties
    • globals() and locals()
    • Working with object attributes
    • The inspect module
    • Callable classes
    • Decorators
    • Monkey patching

    • Analyzing programs with pylint
    • Using the debugger
    • Profiling code
    • Testing speed with benchmarking

    • What is a unit test?
    • Writing tests
    • Working with fixtures
    • Test runners
    • Mocking resources

    • The DB API
    • Available Interfaces
    • Connecting to a server
    • Creating and executing a cursor
    • Fetching data
    • Parameterized statements
    • Using Metadata
    • Transaction control
    • ORMs and NoSQL overview

    • Overview
    • Qt Architecture
    • Using designer
    • Standard widgets
    • Event handling
    • Extras

    • Builtin classes
    • Using requests
    • Grabbing web pages
    • Sending email
    • Working with binary data
    • Consuming RESTful services
    • Remote access (SSH)

    • The threading module
    • Sharing variables
    • The queue module
    • The multiprocessing module
    • Creating pools
    • About async programming

    • Running external programs
    • Parsing arguments
    • Creating filters to read text files
    • Logging

    • Working with XML
    • XML modules in Python
    • Getting started with ElementTree
    • Parsing XML
    • Updating an XML tree
    • Creating a new document
    • About JSON
    • Reading JSON
    • Writing JSON
    • Reading/writing CSV files
    • YAML, other formats as time permits

    • Discover the collections module
    • Use defaultdict, Counter, and namedtuple
    • Create dataclasses
    • Store data offline with pickle

    • Annotate variables
    • Learn what type hinting does NOT do
    • Use the typing module for detailed type hints
    • Understand union and optional types
    • Write stub interfaces

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    Who should attend

    This is an intermediate to advanced level course and is highly recommended for –
    • Software developers
    • Back-end developers
    • Software engineers
    • Programmers
    • System administrators

    Prerequisites

    Participants need to have basic incoming practical experience working with Python, along with a working user-level knowledge of Unix/Linux, Mac or Windows. Participants also need to be trained or have equivalent practical skills in “Introduction to Basic Python Programming”, “Essential Python Programming” and “Mastering Python Programming”.

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