A Python Overview

• History of the Language and Different Python Versions
• Installation Process and Environment Variables
• Command Line Execution of Python
• IDLE Environment
• Python File Edits and Documentation
• Dynamic types
• Reserved Words
• Conventions for Naming

Basic Syntax

• Overview of Syntax
• Commentary
• String Values, Methods and Operators
• Format Method
• Numeric Data Types
• Functions for Conversion
• Simple Input and Output
• Percent Method
• Print Function

Components of the Language

• Requirements for Indenting
• if Statements
• Relational, Logical and Bit Wise Operators
• While and For Loops
• Break and Continue

Collections

• Lists
• Tuples
• Sets
• Dictionaries and Sorting Dictionaries
• Copying Collections

Functions

• Function Definition
• Parameters
• Documenting Functions
• Keyword and Optional Parameters
• Collection Passing to Functions
• Argument Variable Numbers
• Scope
• "First Class Citizens" Function
• Function Passing to Function
• Dictionary Mapping of Functions
• Lambda
• Inner Functions
• Closures

Modules

• Overview of Modules
• Standard Modules - sys, math, time
• dir Function

Exceptions

• Errors
• Run Time Errors
• Exception Model and Hierarchy
• Multiple Exceptions
• Raise
• Assert
• Crafting Exception Classes

Input, Output

• Data Streams and Creating Individual Streams
• Access Modes
• Writing and Reading Data to and from a File
• Supplementary File Methods
• Pipes as Data Streams
• Managing IO Exceptions
• Handling Directories
• Metadata
• Pickle Module

Python's Classes

• Classes in Python
• Object Orientation Principles
• Class Creation
• Instance Methods
• Organizing Files
• Distinct Methods
• Variables for Classes
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Identifying Types
• Customized Exception Classes

Regular Expressions

• Simple Character Matches
• Special Characters
• Character Classes
• Quantifiers
• Dot Character
• Greedy Matches
• Grouping
• Beginning or End Matching
• Match Objects
• Substituting
• String Splits
• Regular Expressions Compilation
• Flags