PYTHON:Version 2.7.10

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Python
 Introductory Remarks about Python
 Strengths and Weaknesses
 A Brief History of Python
 Python Versions
 Installing Python
 Environment Variables
 Executing Python from the Command Line
 IDLE
 Editing Python Files
 Getting Help
 Dynamic Types
 Python Reserved Words
 Naming Conventions

Chapter 2: Basic Python Syntax •
 Introduction
 Basic Syntax
 Comments
 String Values
 String Operations
 The format Method
 String Slices
 String Operators
 Numeric Data Types
 Conversions
 Simple Input and Output
 The print Function

• Chapter 3: Language Components
 Introduction
 Control Flow and Syntax
 Indenting
 The if Statement
 Relational Operators
 Logical Operators
 True or False
 Bit Wise Operators
 The while Loop
 break and continue
 The for Loop

• Chapter 4: Collections
 Introduction
 Lists
 Tuples
 Sets
 Dictionaries
 Sorting Dictionaries
 Copying Collections
 Summary

• Chapter 5: Functions
 Introduction
 Defining Your Own Functions
 Parameters
 Function Documentation
 Keyword and Optional Parameters
 Passing Collections to a Function
 Variable Number of Arguments
 Scope
 Functions – “First Class Citizens”
 Passing Functions to a Function
 Mapping Functions in a Dictionary
 Lambda
 Closures

• Chapter 6: Modules
 Modules
 Standard Modules – sys
 Standard Modules – math
 Standard Modules – time
 The dir Function

• Chapter 7: Exceptions
 Errors
 Run Time Errors
 The Exception Model
 Exception Hierarchy
 Handling Multiple Exceptions
 raise
 assert
 Writing Your Own Exception Classes

• Chapter 8: Input and Output
 Introduction
 Data Streams
 Creating Your Own Data Streams
 Access Modes
 Writing Data to a File
 Reading Data From a File
 Additional File Methods
 Using Pipes as Data Streams
 Handling IO Exceptions
 Working with Directories
 Metadata
 The pickle Module

• Chapter 9: Classes in Python
 Classes in Python
 Principles of Object Orientation
 Creating Classes
 Instance Methods
 File Organization
 Special Methods
 Class Variables
 Inheritance
 Polymorphism

• Chapter 10: Regular Expressions
 Introduction
 Simple Character Matches
 Special Characters
 Character Classes
 Quantifiers
 The Dot Character
 Greedy Matches
 Grouping
 Matching at Beginning or End
 Match Objects
 Substituting
 Splitting a String
 Compiling Regular Expressions
 Flags
 Chapter 11: Modules and Packages
 Initialization code
 Namespaces
 Executing modules as scripts
 Documentation
 Packages and name resolution
 Naming conventions
 Using imports

Chapter 12: Python Threading Module:
 Why use threads?
 Threads are different
 Variables are shared
 Python threads modules
 The threading module

Chapter 13: Running Unix commands locally and remotely using Python modules
 Run OS level commands on Unix..?
 Usage and evaluation of Subprocess module
 Usage and evaluation of Paramiko module
 Understand the different use cases of Subproces and Paramiko

Chapter 14: Building command line tools in Unix:
 What is command line tool
 Usage examples in Unix administration
 Argparse module and it’s implementation
 Case study on writing a realtime command line tool in python

Chapter 15: Python working on CSV files
 Importance of csv files
 Read/write operations of python on csv

Chapter 16: Working with API’s in Python
 What is an API
 Understanding JSON module
 How to parse API data and how to push data via API’s

Chapter 17: Creating Python Sandbox environments
 what is sandboxing
 Creating a Python virtual dev environment in Unix
 Installing and managing modules and versions in virtual environment

Chapter 18: Automating AWS & DevOps with Python
 Understanding AWS security key authentication
 Establishing Python scripts to authenticate your AWS accounts
 and control your EC2 instances
 Exploring Python automation opportunities in AWS

Chapter 19: Two real time Projects with python.

Chapter 20: Review, resume content and Interview QA.