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This course covers Intermediate-level Python techniques.

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Use Intermediate Python techniques, including complex aggregate data types.
• Use advanced Regular Expressions.
• Intermediate Object Oriented techniques, including multiple inheritance, exceptions and operator overloading.
• Use Python to access flat files, serialised data files and SQL databases.
• Access the environment: environmental variables, command line arguments and switches, and date and time.
• Use Tk to add a graphical front end (GUI) to your programs.

This course is aimed at Python programmers who want to get more out of the language, avoid its pitfalls and traps and use more of its features.

Recent experience with Python as covered in our Introduction to Python course is required.

Review

Review of the basics
Development environments and IDEs

Intermediate Python

Complex data structures
Shallow and deep copying
Bit operations
Working with Unicode
More on loops and tests
Lambda expressions
List comprehensions

Working with text

Working with plain strings
Unicode
Regular expressions in detail

Intermediate Object-oriented techniques

Review of the basics
Inheritance
Multiple inheritance
Overloaded operators
Exception handling

Using Python with databases

Working with flat files
Object persistence with pickle, json and shelve
Using a database manager
Using SQL databases

The environment

Accessing the command line arguments
Environment variables
Working with date and time

An introduction to Tk

Introduction
Adding widgets
Geometry management
Creating a menu
Displaying a message box

Introduction to Python (2 days)
Advanced Python (3 days)
Scientific and Mathematical programming in Python (2 days)