Welcome to Python for you and me

This is a simple book to learn Python programming language, it is for the programmers who are new to Python.

The Python 2.x version of the same book can be found here.

If you are new to command line in Linux, you can read lym.

Contents:

• Installation
  • On Windows
  • On GNU/Linux
• The Beginning
  • Using the Python interpreter
  • Using a source file
  • Whitespaces and indentation
  • Comments
  • Modules
• Variables and Datatypes
  • Keywords and Identifiers
  • Reading input from the Keyboard
  • Some Examples
  • Multiple assignments in a single line
  • Formatting strings
• Operators and expressions
  • Operators
  • Example of integer arithmetic
  • Relational Operators
  • Logical Operators
  • Shorthand Operator
  • Expressions
  • Type Conversions
  • evaluateequ.py
  • quadraticequation.py
  • salesmansalary.py
• If-else , the control flow
  • If statement
  • Else statement
  • Truth value testing
• Looping
  • While loop
  • Fibonacci Series
  • Power Series
  • Multiplication Table
  • Some printing * examples
  • Lists
  • For loop
  • range() function
  • Continue statement
  • Else statement in a loop
  • Game of sticks
• Data Structures
  • Lists
  • Using lists as stack and queue
  • List Comprehensions
  • Tuples
  • Sets
  • Dictionaries
  • students.py
  • matrixmul.py
• Strings
  • Different methods available for Strings
  • Strip the strings
  • Finding text
  • Palindrome checking
  • Number of words
• Functions
  • Defining a function
  • Local and global variables
  • Default argument value
  • Keyword arguments
  • Keyword only argument
  • Docstrings
  • Higher-order function
  • map function
• File handling
  • File opening
  • Closing a file
  • Reading a file
  • Using the with statement
  • Writing in a file
  • copyfile.py
  • Count spaces, tabs and new lines in a file
  • Let us write some real code
• Exceptions
  • NameError
  • TypeError
  • How to handle exceptions?
  • Raising exceptions
  • Using finally for cleanup
• Class
  • Your first class
  • __init__ method
  • Inheritance
  • Multiple Inheritance
  • Deleting an object
  • Getters and setters in Python
  • Properties
• Modules
  • Introduction
  • Importing modules
  • Submodules
  • __all__ in __init__.py
  • Default modules
  • Module os
  • Requests Module
  • Command line arguments
  • TAB completion in your Python interpreter
• Collections module
  • Counter
  • defaultdict
  • namedtuple
• PEP8 Guidelines
  • Introduction
  • A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds
  • Code lay-out
  • Whitespace in Expressions and Statements
  • Comments
  • Version Bookkeeping
  • Naming Conventions
  • References
  • Copyright
• Iterators, generators and decorators
  • Iterators
  • Generators
  • Generator expressions
  • Closures
  • Decorators
• Virtualenv
  • Installation
  • Usage
• Type hinting and annotations
  • First example of type annotation
  • Using mypy and more examples
  • More examples of type annotations
• Simple testing in Python
  • What we should test ?
  • Unit testing
  • unittest module
  • Factorial code
  • Which function to test ?
  • Our first test case
  • Description
  • Different assert statements
  • Testing exceptions
  • mounttab.py
  • After refactoring
  • Test coverage
  • Coverage Example
• A project structure
  • Primary code
  • MANIFEST.in
  • Installing python-setuptools package
  • setup.py
  • Usage of setup.py
  • Python Package Index (PyPI)
• Building command line applications with Click
  • Installation, and development tips
  • Boolean flags
  • Same option multiple times
  • Super fast way to accept password with confirmation
  • Must have arguments
• Introduction to Flask
  • What is flask?
  • What are template engines?
  • A “Hello world” application in flask
  • Using arguments in Flask
  • Additional work