Topics

• Getting started with Python Language
• Functions
• Getting started with MySQL
• Date and Time
• Enum
• Getting started with python-requests
• pip: PyPI Package Manager
• Exceptions
• The os Module
• Arrays
• Using requests behind a proxy
• py.test

Examples

• Getting Started
• Defining and calling simple functions
• Parsing a string into a timezone aware datetime object
• Simple date arithmetic
• Basic datetime objects usage
• Setting up py.test
• Failing Tests
• User Input
• Datatypes
• Creating an enum (Python 2.4 through 3.3)
• Installation or Setup
• Intro to Test Fixtures
• Converting timestamp to datetime
• Catching multiple exceptions
• Updating all outdated packages on Linux
• Updating all outdated packages on Windows
• Create a requirements.txt file of all packages on the system
• Create a requirements.txt file of packages only in the current virtualenv
• Subtracting months from a date accurately
• Computing time differences
• Determine the name of the operating system
• Remove a directory
• Basic Introduction to Arrays
• Access individual elements through indexes
• Append any value to the array using append() method
• Insert value in an array using insert() method
• Extend python array using extend() method
• Add items from list into array using fromlist() method
• Remove any array element using remove() method
• Remove last array element using pop() method
• Fetch any element through its index using index() method
• Reverse a python array using reverse() method
• Get array buffer information through buffer_info() method
• Check for number of occurrences of an element using count() method
• Convert array to string using tostring() method
• Convert array to a python list with same elements using tolist() method
• Append a string to char array using fromstring() method
• Setting proxy in Python code
• Using proxy environment variables