AdvancedPythonMar2021.txt

Python Advanced
22-25 Mar 2021
Toby Dussek

9:30 start
11:00 coffee
12:20 lunch
3:00 tea
4:30 end

Code repository is here: https://github.com/onionmccabbage/advPythonMar2021

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Monday
> intro
> what do you currently know
> what do you want to know
> classes - properties
> functional programming: map filter and reduce
> labs
> comprehensions
> generators
> yield, next and custom generators 

Question:
> we can subsume the extra newline char when printing lines from a read-in file

Tuesday
> iterators __iter__
> closures
> functional programming: parameters
> context manager
> after lunch lab exercise (inc optional material)
- ask questions, help each other, share code (screen-share)
> begin processing text xml json
> json.loads() takes JSON and returns Python structure
> json.dumps() takes Python and returns JSON
> pickle ...
> persisting files
> databases
  see https://wiki.python.org/moin/DatabaseProgramming

Wednesday
> networking: url requests (more than just get)
> introduce some end-points
> networking server/client
> what it the point of __slots__
> http 80 or https 443
  req is http and the end-point is https
> named tuple
> zip
> testing: doctest, unittest, mock
  see https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html
> after lunch lab exercise
> pytest

Thursday
> brief look at the 'beyond advanced Python' coure outline
> revisit @property and __ name mangling (after 9:45)
> a bit more pyttest (with zip and named tuple)
> profiling, briefly debug
> logging
> multi threading, performance
> after lunch lab exercise
> deque, defaultdict etc
> all my code available online
> feedback forms: internal Ericsson and also for ITAG