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<p>Created page with &quot;A separate page for <a href="/ceres/index.php/Python_Course_discussions" title="Python Course discussions">discussions</a> == Introduction == Books: * http://www.diveintopython.net/ - really good, but a little bit dated * http://learn...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A separate page for [[Python Course discussions|discussions]]<br /> <br /> == Introduction ==<br /> <br /> Books:<br /> * http://www.diveintopython.net/ - really good, but a little bit dated<br /> * http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ - seems good, even if a little basic (but I have not read it)<br /> <br /> IDE:<br /> * IDLE: http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/idle/index.html<br /> * Wing IDE: http://www.wingware.com/<br /> * Eric: http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/<br /> * Eclipse &amp; PyDev plugin: http://pydev.org/<br /> * pyscripter: http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/<br /> * also, http://bit.ly/tgMCbD<br /> <br /> Official:<br /> * Download: http://www.python.org/ (remember to grab 2.x branch -- current version is 2.7.3)<br /> * Documentation: http://docs.python.org/2.7/<br /> * Tutorial: http://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/index.html<br /> * Library Reference: http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/index.html<br /> <br /> Things to start with<br /> * setuptools: http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html<br /> <br /> Essential libraries:<br /> * numpy / scipy<br /> * matplotlib<br /> <br /> == 2013.01.23 ==<br /> <br /> Things I have talked about today (non-obvious and important stuff in '''bold'''):<br /> * Hello, world!<br /> * '''list''' / '''dictionary''' / string / number / tuple / set<br /> * functions<br /> ** default arguments, keyword arguments, '''variable argument lists'''<br /> ** '''anonymous functions''' / lambda<br /> * '''exceptions'''<br /> * if / for / while / else / break / continue<br /> ** '''else''' also works for loops<br /> * variables &amp; assignment<br /> ** '''pass-by-reference''' semantics<br /> ** difference between = and ==<br /> * '''generators''' / iterators<br /> * '''list comprehension''' / generator comprehension / dictionary comprehension<br /> * '''string formatting'''<br /> * '''modules''' / import / import as / import from<br /> * classes<br /> ** special methods: __init__ / __str__ / __eq__ / __call__ / ...<br /> ** descriptors<br /> * advanced ideas<br /> ** decorators<br /> ** metaclasses<br /> <br /> Things I did not have time to talk about but I wanted to... modules in standard library you should definitely know about:<br /> * sqlite3<br /> * collections (especially defaultdict)<br /> * re<br /> * datetime<br /> * threading / multiprocessing / Queue<br /> * random<br /> * itertools / functools<br /> * os / sys / shutil / os.path<br /> * pickle<br /> * md5<br /> * subprocess<br /> * socket<br /> * urllib / httplib / email / cgi / urlparse / cookielib<br /> * pdb (especially pm)<br /> * win32api / win32gui<br /> <br /> == Additional ==<br /> <br /> Advanced stuff:<br /> * http://lanyrd.com/2011/europython/sftym/<br /> <br /> Fun:<br /> * http://www.pythonchallenge.com/<br /> <br /> == library Presentations ==<br /> * NumPy and SciPy (presented by Wagner) [[File:Python_course_(scipy_and_numpy)_(Wagner).zip]]<br /> * Scikit (presented by Jens)<br /> * Matplotlib (presented by Saeed) [[File:Matplotlib pres.zip‎]]</div>

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