Python Basics Training

Installing Python 2.7+

Installing Python 3.x

Preparing to write Python

Preparing to write a Python file (*.py) - Text Editors

Executing a Python file

Python Enhancement Proposals

How to “speak” Python

Python Statements and Control Flow

Python Interpreter

Overview of the Standard Library

Set up a github account

Github essentials

README course requirements

How to Set up a repo

Issue a Pull request

How to use “Issues” for peer review

Functions

Objects

Methods

Built in Functions

Functions and Arguments

Print()

White spacing basic rules

String Literal Escape Sequences

Python Variables

Naming Conventions & Rules

Types as Objects

Sequence Types

List Iteration

List Enumeration

Sequence Assignments

Mutable vs Immutable Objects

Assignment Shorthand

Numeric Types

Operators and Precedence / Arithmetic Expressions

Integers

Floating points

Generating Strings in Python

Common String Methods

Formatting String Output

Booleans

Printing and formatting strings

Scripting with input()

About raw_input()

Lists

Mixed Lists

Common List Methods

Other List Operations

Dictionaries

Python Dictionaries

Keys and Values

Dictionary Building

Dictionary Methods

Tuples

Python Time Tuples

Dictionaries vs Lists vs Tuples

Translating JSON to Pythonic Lists, Dictionaries and Tuples

Relational Operators

Logical operators

Comparison Operations

“simple” if Statement

If else statements

If elif

Nested if statement

While usage

Count controlled loop

Event controlled loop

Continue

Break

The for Loop

For iteration examples

Looping across data sets

Looping across lists of lists

Looping across lists of dictionaries

The range() Function

Taking the range() of len()

Iterable Objects

The iter() Function

Looping with dictionaries

Looping with lists

Opening Files

Working with Files

Read data from files

Controlling Output Location

Intro to working with APIs

What is a “REST”ful API?

APIs and JSON

Basic List Comprehensions

Compound List Comprehensions

Function Basics

Defining Functions

Function Polymorphism

Argument Defaults

Lambdas

Local Variables

Variable Masking

Creating functions using Sorted() and sort()

Preventing Variable Modifications

Argument Matching Methods

Pip and pip3

Module Basics

Packages

Virtual environments

Defined modules

Import modules

From import statements

Namespace

Naming conventions

Local scope

Global scope

Nested scope

About OOP

The Class Statements

Defining a class

Class Inheritance

Classes as Objects

Using Dictionaries

Understanding self

Class fields and constructors

Data structures

Subclasses (Inheritance)

Multiple Inheritance

Static methods

Import re library

Writing regular expression

Searching for data in files

Using Regular Expression to search data sets

Searching for data in Wireshark Traces (Python and *.pcaps)