Advanced Python Programming Course Calendar (5 days)

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Recommended Pre-requisites

Course Outline/Agenda

• Object Oriented Python
  • About OOP
  • The Class Statements
  • Class Inheritance
  • Classes as Objects
  • Using Dictionaries
  • Understanding self
  • Overriding Inherited Methods
  • More Inheritance
  • Operator Overloading (“magic” functions)
    • The __iter__ Method
    • The __getitem__ Method
  • Empty Classes For Storage
  • Pickling & Shelving Objects
  • Exercises
  • Multiple Inheritance
• Exceptions
  • About Exceptions
  • Python's Default Exception Handler
  • Using Try/Except/Finally Exceptions
  • Generating User Defined Exceptions
  • More on Exceptions
  • Exception Examples
  • Using Asserts
  • Exception Classes
• Python Generators
  • About Generators
  • Generator Syntax
  • Communicating with Generators with send()
  • Exercises
• Python Decorators
  • About Decorators
  • Simple Function Decorators
  • Classes as Decorators
  • Chained Decorators
  • Decorator Arguments
  • Exercises
• Python Regular Expressions
  • About Regular Expressions
  • re Basics
  • Expression Basics
  • Using match() and search()
  • Working with Match Objects
  • Other re Module Functions
  • Passing in Modifier Flags
  • Exercises
• Sockets & Networking
  • Socket Basics
  • The Socket Module
    • Network Clients
  • Creating Network Servers
    • Example Server
  • Exercises
• Python Protocol Clients
  • Protocol Support
  • Exercises
• Generating & Sending Email
  • The email Module
  • Creating Simple Emails
  • Creating a Message
  • Creating SMTP Connections
  • SMTP Methods
  • Exercises
• Processes and Threads
  • Running Shell Commands
  • Popen Objects
  • Using Parallel Processing
  • Using Python's os.fork() Function
  • Using os.exec*() Variants
  • Exercises
  • Python Threads
  • The threading Module
  • Thread Objects
  • Custom Thread Objects
  • Working with Locks
  • Using Reentrant Locks
  • Condition Objects
  • Exercises
  • Using the Queue Object
  • Using Semaphores
  • Using with for Locks, RLocks, Condition & Sempahores
  • Event Objects
  • Timer Objects
  • Processing Exit Codes
  • Exercises
  • The multiprocessing Module
  • Using multiprocessing
  • Exchanging Objects
  • Using Pipes
  • Synchronization
  • Using multiprocess Managers
• Signal Handling
  • The Signal Module
  • Defining Signal Handlers
  • Signal Numbers
  • Common Signal Module Functions
  • Using set_wakeup_fd()
  • Using Timers
  • Other Signal Notes
  • Exercises
• Introduction to Twisted
  • About Twisted
  • Installing Twisted
  • Twisted Basics
  • The Twisted Reactor
    • Using CallLater
  • Understanding Deferred Objects
  • Creating Deferred Objects
  • Stacking Callbacks
  • Stacking Deferred
  • What about concurrency?
    • Exercises
• Networking with Twisted
  • Networking Basics
  • Creating a ClientFactory
  • Twisted Failures
  • Protocol Objects
  • Creating Network Clients
  • Creating SSL Clients
  • SSL Context
  • Twisted Helpers
  • Twisted Protocol Support
  • Using Twisted SMTP Protocol Support
  • Twisted.mail.SMTP.sendmail() Explained
  • Mail Exchange Lookups with MXCalculator
  • Using the ESMTPSenderFactory
    • Example
  • More Factories
    • Exercises
• Providing Services with Twisted
  • Creating Listeners
  • Server Example
    • Exercises
  • Using the Twist Daemonizer (twistd)
  • Creating tac Files
  • Managing Services with twistd
  • Logging with twistd
• Unit Testing with unittest (PyUnit)
  • About unittest (PyUnit)
  • The TestCase Class
  • TestCase Methods
  • Checking & Reporting Failures
  • Setting up Simple Tests
  • Compiling Test Suites
  • Working with TestResult Objects
  • Using TestLoader Objects
  • Exercises
• Globbing
  • Using Glob
  • Exercises
• XML Processing
  • About XML
  • The ElementTree XML API
  • The Element Class
  • Using Elements
  • Creating New Elements
  • Xpath Style Queries
  • Creating & Saving XML Files

Class Size

On-Site Delivery

This course is available for on-site delivery for groups of 3 or more students.

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Course Details

• Design, develop, and implement powerful unit testing within their Python applications.
• Understand and leverage Object Oriented programming techniques in their Python applications.
• Alter or augment the operation of existing or inherited Python code using decorators
• Apply powerful regular expression matching and manipulation techniques.
• Utilize sockets & networking, including Python provided protocol clients
• Generate and send complex email with multiple MIME parts and attachments
• Leverage and understand Pythons threading and multiprocessing module, including locks, conditions, re-entrant locks, and a host of other related topics.
• Develop Python applications that react to signals.
• Understand, develop, and deploy cooperative multitasking, event-driven services with Twisted
• Parse, process, manipulate, generate, and query XML documents

Instructional Materials

• Programming Python (O'Reilly & Associates)
• OTG Course Guide

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