Advanced Python Development
This course aims to extend and solidify your Python experience by exploring structural techniques and common Python APIs. You'll learn how to write object oriented and functional code, implement GUIs, create Web sites backed up by relational databases, implement multithreaded code, and more.
Objectives
- Functional Python programming
- GUI development using Python
- Logging
- Regular expressions
- Multithreading
- Networking
- Web and database development using Django and Flask
- Integrating with the C programming language
Prerequisites
- The course assumes you are happy with core Python concepts and syntax
- Approx. 6 months Python experience
Contents
Review Essential Python Features
- Modules and packages
- Built-in functions
- Algorithms and data structures
- Object-oriented Python
Functional Development
- Overview of functional programming
- Iterators
- Generator expressions
- List comprehensions
- Built-in functions
- Using the itertools module
Curses Programming
- Overview of the curses module
- Starting and ending a curses app
- Windows and pads
- Displaying text
- User input
GUI Programming
- Overview of GUI APIs
- Creating GUIs using Tkinter
- Creating GUIs using JPython
Effective Logging
- Logging essentials
- Handlers and formatters
- Configuration
- Blocking handlers
- Adapters
- Filters
- File rotation
- Additional techniques
Regular Expressions
- Overview
- Using the match function
- Using the search function
- Search and replace
- Regular expression modifiers
- Regular expression patterns
- Special characters
- Multiplicity
- Greedy vs. non-greedy repetition
Multithreading
- Threading essentials
- Starting a new thread
- Using the threading module
- Synchronizing threads
- Specifying thread priorities
Networking
- Socket concepts
- Creating sockets
- Sending data over a socket
- Listening for connections
- Receiving data over a socket
- Non-blocking sockets
- Sending emails
Getting Started with Django
- Overview of Django
- Installing Django
- Writing a simple Django app
- Defining a simple model
- QuerySets
- Implementing simple views
- Using simple templates
Introduction to Flask
- Creating Flask REST APIs
- Interacting with Databases
- Securing Flask Applications
Python Extension Programming in C
- Overview of the Python extension module
- C functions
- Method mapping table
- Initialization
- Building and installing extensions
- Importing extensions
- Passing parameters to functions
- Receiving return values
