Python tutorial for professionals

Download free Python tutorial course in PDF, training file in 201 chapters and 816 pages. Free unaffiliated ebook created from Stack OverFlow contributor.

Table of contents

• About
• Getting started with Python Language
• Getting Started
• Creating variables and assigning values
• Block Indentation
• Datatypes
• Collection Types
• IDLE - Python GUI
• User Input
• Built in Modules and Functions
• Creating a module
• Installation of Python 27x and 3x
• String function - str() and repr()
• Installing external modules using pip
• Help Utility
• Python Data Types
• String Data Type
• Set Data Types
• Numbers data type
• List Data Type
• Dictionary Data Type
• Tuple Data Type
• Indentation
• Simple example
• How Indentation is Parsed
• Indentation Errors
• Comments and Documentation
• Single line, inline and multiline comments
• Programmatically accessing docstrings
• Write documentation using docstrings
• Date and Time
• Parsing a string into a timezone aware datetime object
• Constructing timezone-aware datetimes
• Computing time di?erences
• Basic datetime objects usage
• Switching between time zones
• Simple date arithmetic
• Converting timestamp to datetime
• Subtracting months from a date accurately
• Parsing an arbitrary ISO 8601 timestamp with minimal libraries
• Get an ISO 8601 timestamp
• Parsing a string with a short time zone name into a timezone aware datetime object
• Fuzzy datetime parsing (extracting datetime out of a text)
• Iterate over dates
• Date Formatting
• Time between two date-times
• Outputting datetime object to string
• Python Data Types
• Comments and Documentation
• Date Formatting
• Set
• Bitwise Operators
• Operator Precedence
• Conditionals
• Loops
• Multidimensional arrays
• List
• List slicing (selecting parts of lists)
• Linked lists
• Filter
• Tuple
• Files & Folders I/O
• Iterables and Iterators
• Defining functions with list arguments
• Partial functions
• Classes
• String Formatting
• Using loops within functions
• Difference between Module and Package
• Complex math
• Operator module
• Sqlite3 Module
• The locale Module
• Asyncio Module
• Functools Module
• The base64 Module
• Deque Module
• tkinter
• pyautogui module
• Indexing and Slicing
• Plotting with Matplotlib
• graph-tool
• Generators
• Reduce
• Map Function
• Exponentiation
• Searching
• Sorting, Minimum and Maximum
• Counting
• The Print Function
• Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Copying data
• Context Managers (“with” Statement)
• The __name__ special variable
• Checking Path Existence and Permissions
• Creating Python packages
• Usage of "pip" module: PyPI Package Manager
• pip: PyPI Package Manager
• Parsing Command Line arguments
• Subprocess Library
• setup.py
• Recursion
• Type Hints
• Exceptions
• Raise Custom Errors / Exceptions
• Commonwealth Exceptions
• urllib
• Web scraping with Python
• HTML Parsing
• Manipulating XML
• Python Requests Post
• Distribution
• Property Objects
• Overloading
• Polymorphism
• Method Overriding
• User-Defined Methods
• String representations of class instances: __str__ and __repr__ methods
• Debugging
• Reading and Writing CSV
• Writing to CSV from String or List
• Dynamic code execution with `exec` and `eval`
• PyInstaller - Distributing Python Code
• Data Visualization with Python
• The Interpreter (Command Line Console)
• *args and **kwargs
• Garbage Collection
• Pickle data serialisation
• Binary Data
• Idioms
• Data Serialization
• Multiprocessing
• Multithreading
• Processes and Threads
• Python concurrency
• Parallel computation
• Sockets
• Websockets
• Sockets And Message Encryption/Decryption Between Client and Server
• Python Networking
• Python HTTP Server
• Flask
• Introduction to RabbitMQ using AMQPStorm
• Descriptor
• tempfile NamedTemporaryFile
• Input, Subset and Output External Data Files using Pandas
• Unzipping Files
• Working with ZIP archives
• Getting start with GZip
• Stack
• Working around the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
• Deployment
• Logging
• Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI)
• Python Server Sent Events
• Alternatives to switch statement from other languages
• List destructuring (aka packing and unpacking)
• Accessing Python source code and bytecode
• Mixins
• Attribute Access
• ArcPy
• Abstract Base Classes (abc)
• Plugin and Extension Classes
• Immutable datatypes(int, float, str, tuple and frozensets)
• Incompatibilities moving from Python 2 to Python 3
• 2to3 tool
• Non-official Python implementations
• Abstract syntax tree
• Unicode and bytes
• Python Serial Communication (pyserial)
• Neo4j and Cypher using Py2Neo
• Basic Curses with Python
• Templates in python
• Pillow
• The pass statement
• CLI subcommands with precise help output
• Database Access
• Connecting Python to SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• Python and Excel
• Turtle Graphics
• Python Persistence
• Design Patterns
• hashlib
• Creating a Windows service using Python
• Mutable vs Immutable (and Hashable) in Python
• configparser
• Optical Character Recognition
• Virtual environments
• Python Virtual Environment - virtualenv
• Virtual environment with virtualenvwrapper
• Create virtual environment with virtualenvwrapper in windows
• sys
• ChemPy - python package
• pygame
• Pyglet
• Audio
• pyaudio
• shelve
• IoT Programming with Python and Raspberry PI
• kivy - Cross-platform Python Framework for NUI Development
• Pandas Transform: Preform operations on groups and concatenate the results
• Similarities in syntax, Differences in meaning: Python vs. JavaScript
• Call Python from C#
• ctypes
• Writing extensions
• Python Lex-Yacc
• Unit Testing
• py.test
• Profiling
• Python speed of program
• Performance optimization
• Security and Cryptography
• Secure Shell Connection in Python
• Python Anti-Patterns
• Common Pitfalls
• Hidden Features

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