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Course name: Advanced Python
Course length: 3 days
Remote: Yes
Open course: Yes
In-house: Yes
Course ID: ADE
Price: See registration link
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Course Dates

Location Date Registration
Leipzig January 27 - 29, 2025
Remote January 27 - 29, 2025

Language
English


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Advanced Python

Intended Audience

This course targets medium level Python programmers who would like to dive deeper into the language. Alternatively, participants can attend the course Python for Programmers to be able to take full advantage of this advanced course.

Motivation

The Python programming language is relatively easy to learn and allows to solve real-world problem with a just a few concepts.

But it also offers several advanced features that can help to greatly improve the programming experience. Python offers interesting features that can be used passively without deeper understanding about how they work. The course teaches how these features work and provides details about meta-programming and other advanced techniques.

Content

Comprehensions

The principle comes from the functional language Haskell but integrates very well into Python. After list comprehension came generator expressions followed by dictionary and set comprehensions.

The course introduces this style of programming with examples focusing on advantages and disadvantages for certain tasks.

Iterators and Generators

Iterators and generator make lazy evaluation, that is generating an object just when it is needed, very convenient. The concept of yielding instead of returning plays a central role. The course shows how to use generators to simplify programming tasks. Furthermore, coroutines will be used to implement concurrent solutions. An overview over the itertools module shows how to elegantly solve iteration tasks.

Decorators

Decorator provide a very useful method to add functionality to existing functions and classes. The course uses examples for caching, proxying, and checking of arguments to demonstrate how decorators can improve code readability and can simplify solutions.

Context Managers

The with statement helps to make code more robust by simplifying exception handling. The course shows how to use the with statement with the standard library and how to write your own objects that take advantage of with. The contextlib from the standard library helps to make this easier.

Descriptors

Descriptors determine how attribute of object are accessed. The course uses examples to show how descriptors work and how they can be used to customize attribute access.

Metaclasses

Metaclasses offer a powerful way to change how classes in Python behave. Whíle being an advanced feature that should be used sparingly, it can provide interesting help for complex problems. The course shows how to apply metaclasses and gives examples where they can be useful.

Conventions

Python offers a lot of functionality out of the box where other languages need to use design patterns. These patterns are general solutions for certain types of problems.

Python offers what is called the “pythonic” way for solving a problem. The course presents of a few of these solutions:

  • wrapping instead of inheritance

  • dependency injections

  • factories

  • duck typing

  • monkey patching

  • callbacks

Good Style

Python is often described as an elegant language. Consistency is contributing to this. There are several recommendations and tools that help to check for them. The course has a closer look at the Python style guide (PEP8) and uses PyLint and pep8.py with examples. The participants are encouraged to bring their source code for style analysis.

Exercises

The participants can follow all steps directly on their computers. There are exercises at the end of each unit providing ample opportunity to apply the freshly learned knowledge.

Software

We use our online programing system that contains all needed software. There is no need to install any additional software. A modern internet browser and a decent internet connection will be enough.

Hardware for Open In-Person Trainings

For open trainings at our teaching center you can use your own laptop. Alternatively, we provide teaching computers. Please let us know if you need one in your registration form.

Course Material

Every participant receives comprehensive materials in PDF format that cover the whole course content as well as all source code.

How to contact us:
Python Academy GmbH & Co. KG
Zur Schule 20
04158 Leipzig / Germany
Tel:+49 341 260 3370
Fax:+49 341 520 4495
mail:info@python-academy.de
How to contact us:
Python Academy GmbH & Co. KG
Zur Schule 20
04158 Leipzig / Germany
Tel:+49 341 260 3370
Fax:+49 341 520 4495
mail:info@python-academy.de