Topics

• Lint Warnings
• Getting started with Python Language
• List comprehensions
• Filter
• List
• Functions
• Math Module
• Loops
• Random module
• Comparisons
• Importing modules
• Variable Scope and Binding
• Basic Input and Output
• Files & Folders I/O
• String Methods
• Indexing and Slicing
• Sectioning Elements
• Map Function
• Dictionary
• Classes
• Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Incompatibilities moving from Python 2 to Python 3
• Context Managers (“with” Statement)
• String Formatting
• The Print Function
• Creating Python packages
• Exceptions
• Garbage Collection
• Security and Cryptography
• Descriptor
• Common Pitfalls
• Working with ZIP archives
• Issues
• Comments and Documentation
• Attribute Access

Examples

• Getting Started
• List Comprehensions
• Basic use of map, itertools.imap and future_builtins.map
• Basic use of filter
• Defining and calling simple functions
• Returning values from functions
• For loops
• Random and sequences: shuffle, choice and sample
• Break and Continue in Loops
• Greater than or less than
• Not equal to
• Equal To
• Importing a module
• Importing specific names from a module
• Chain Comparisons
• Defining a function with optional mutable arguments
• Using input() and raw_input()
• Using the print function
• Printing a string without a newline at the end
• File modes
• Getting the full contents of a file
• Writing to a file
• Changing the capitalization of a string
• Split a string based on a delimiter into a list of strings
• Replace all occurrences of one substring with another substring
• Making a shallow copy of an array
• Reversing an object
• Avoiding KeyError Exceptions
• Basic inheritance
• Class and instance variables
• Bound, unbound, and static methods
• New-style vs. old-style classes
• Check whether a file or path exists
• IDLE - Python GUI
• Print statement vs. Print function
• Strings: Bytes versus Unicode
• Integer Division
• Reduce is no longer a built-in
• Differences between range and xrange functions
• Unpacking Iterables
• Raising and handling Exceptions
• Introduction to context managers and the with statement
• .next() method on iterators renamed
• Comparison of different types
• User Input
• exec statement is a function in Python 3
• Renamed modules
• Introduction
• Octal Constants
• All classes are "new-style classes" in Python 3.
• Raising Exceptions
• Catching Exceptions
• Removed operators <> and ``, synonymous with != and repr()
• Nonlocal Variables
• Reference Counting
• Garbage Collector for Reference Cycles
• Effects of the del command
• encode/decode to hex no longer available
• cmp function removed in Python 3
• Do not catch everything!
• Leaked variables in list comprehension
• Any and All
• map()
• filter(), map() and zip() return iterators instead of sequences
• Absolute/Relative Imports
• File I/O
• Simple descriptor
• The round() function tie-breaking and return type
• Iterating over matches using `re.finditer`
• Opening Zip Files
• Read from stdin
• Creating an issue
• True, False and None
• Chaining of or operator
• Return value when writing to a file object
• long vs. int
• Single line, inline and multiline comments
• Class Boolean Value
• Making package executable
• Examining Zipfile Contents
• Programmatically accessing docstrings