Python 201 - Interactively Learn Advanced Concepts in Python 3

Course Overview

I created this course to help take you to the next level in your programming journey. It will also demonstrate to you some of the many ways you can use Python in your day-to-day work. I will be covering intermediate and some advanced level material in this course. Python 201 is split i... See More

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Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. An Intro to Argument Parsing using argparse

How to process command line arguments?

Adding Arguments

Short Options and Long Options

Options that Conflict

2. The collections module

Collections module in Python

ChainMap

Counter

defaultdict

deque

namedtuple

OrderedDict

3. Context Managers

Context manager in Python

Creating a Context Manager class

Creating a Context Manager using contextlib

contextlib.closing(thing)

contextlib.suppress(*exceptions)

contextlib.redirect_stdout / redirect_stderr

ExitStack

Reentrant Context Managers

4. The functools module

Introduction to functools

Caching with functools.lru_cache

functool.partial

Function Overloading with functools.singledispatch

functools.wraps

Wraps to the Rescue!

5. All About Imports

Introduction to imports

Regular Imports

Using "from module import something"

Relative Imports

Optional Imports

Local Imports

Import Pitfalls

6. The importlib Module

importlib package

Dynamic Imports

Module Import Checking

Import From Source File

import_from_github_com

7. Iterators and Generators

Introduction to Iterators

Creating Your Own Iterators

Generators

8. The itertools Module

Iterators

Iterators That Terminate

The Combinatoric Generators

9. Regular Expressions

Introduction to Regular expressions

The Matching Characters

Pattern Matching Using search

Escape Codes

Compiling

Compilation Flags

Finding Multiple Instances

Backslashes Are Complicated

10. The typing Module

Getting Started

Type Hints and Overloaded Functions

11. Python Built-ins

Introduction to built-ins

enumerate

eval

filter

map

zip

12. Unicode

Introduction to unicode

Encoding / Decoding

13. Benchmarking

Getting started

Importing timeit for Testing

Use a decorator

Create a Timing Context Manager

cProfile

line_profiler

memory_profiler

profilehooks

14. Encryption and Cryptography

Getting started

Key Derivation

PyCrypto

The cryptography Package

15. Databases

Getting started

adodbapi

pyodbc

pypyodbc

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Object Relational Mappers

16. The super built-in

Introduction to super built-ins

Python 2 vs Python 3

Method Resolution Order (MRO)

17. Descriptors

Descriptors in Python

The Descriptor Protocol

Calling a Descriptor

Descriptor Examples

18. Scope

Scope in Python

Local Scope

Global Scope

nonlocal Scope

19. Web Scraping

Getting started

Preparing to Scrape

BeautifulSoup

Scrapy

20. Web APIs

Introduction to APIs

Twitter

Reddit

Wikipedia

Other API Libraries

21. Working with FTP

Introduction to FTP

Connecting to an FTP Server

Navigating Directories with ftplib

Downloading a File via FTP

Uploading Files to an FTP Server

22. The urllib Module

urllib module in Python

urllib.request

urllib.parse

urllib.robotparser

23. The doctest Module

Getting started

How it Works

Check Your Test With a Text File

Option Flags and Directives

24. The unittest Module

unittest module in Python

A Simple Example

Command-Line Interface

Creating a More Complex Test

Creating Test Suites

How to Skip Tests

Integrating with doctest

25. The mock Module

mock module in Python

Simple Examples

Side Effects

Autospeccing

The Patch

26. An Intro to coverage.py

Coverage.py

Additional Information

27. The asyncio Module

Getting started

async and await

A Bad Coroutine Example

A Better Coroutine Example

Scheduling Calls

Tasks

28. The threading Module

Getting started

Locks and Synchronization

Timers

Other Thread Components

Thread Communication

29. The multiprocessing Module

Multiprocessing in Python

Locks

Logging

The Pool Class

Process Communication

30. The concurrent.futures Module

concurrent.futures module

Creating a Pool

Deadlocks