Dive into the Python Standard Library

Objectives

• Threads, processes, pipes, and signals in Python
• Persisting Python objects (marshalling and pickling objects)
• Python modules for XML, HTML, and SGML
• Modules for e-mail and news support
• Internet programming with Python (including sockets, a chat example, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP, and Telnet)
• Internationalization support

Audience

• This course targets medium level Python programmers who would like to dive deeper into the language.
• Software developers interested in learning how to write Python code in a Pythonic way

Prerequisites

• Python programmers who want to learn the more advanced features of Python will find this course useful.

Course Outline

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DIVE INTO THE PYTHON STANDARD LIBRARY

• The Glob Module
• The Itertools Module: Infinite Iterations
• The itertools Module: Combinatorics
• The itertools Module: Shortest Input
• The Collections Module: Namedtuple
• The collections Module: defaultdict
• The collections Module: Counter
• The Functools Module: Iru_cache
• The Functools Module: Total_ordering
• The Functools Module: Partial
• The functools Module: reduce
• The json Module: Reading & Writing
• The Json Module: Function Encode & Decode
• The json Module: Class Encode & Decode
• The csv Module: CSV Reading & Writing
• The csv Module: DictReader and DictWriter
• The os.path Module
• The socket Module: TCP Server
• The socket Module: TCP Client
• The socket Module: UDP Server
• The Socket Module: UDP Client
• Datetime Strftime
• datetime strptime
• Futures ThreadPoolExecutor Submit
• Futures ProcessPoolExecutor Submit