Python Workshop

Python Workshop Sat 26 Sep 2009 14:00 till Sat 26 Sep 2009 20:00 What: python workshop,, by User:Fs111 Tagline: def workshop(python_at_hsb) Where: HSB Brussels,Belgium Cost: 5 EUR (for non-members) Who: HSB URL: Python_Workshop

What

This will be a beginners workshop, things I (fs111) want to cover:

• Brief introduction in the who, what and where in python
• Hello World and the interactive interpreter
• control structures
• built-in types (numbers, strings, lists, dicts, sets etc.) and higher level functions
• input/output
• module system (imports)
• objects and classes and types
• documentation system
• neat little tricks and features you should know (generators, list comprehension, slicing)
• some modules from the standard lib that you should know (OS interface, filesystem, option parsing, xml?, network stuff etc.)
• Q/A all the time of course
• free style hacking afterwards

• Python egg
• Paster

How long will the workshop last?

I really don't know. I try to cover the stuff mentioned above and then we can go into freestyle hacking, where we help each other out I guess. As long we do not run out of mate we can go on :-)

Stuff you need

I will use the latest release of the Python 2.x series which is 2.6 right now. 3.x is out already for some time but the adoption is low and a big number of 3rdd party modules are not ported yet. So what I would expect from you is that you have the following installed:

• python 2.6, which can be downloaded here
• a text editor of choice, anything will do, I use vim. Tips for vim and Python here.
• a shell

Participants

Put your name here if you are coming:

Who	Comment	Present
fs111	This space is intentionally left blank	yes
Erik	This space is intentionally left blank	yes
Sandb	This space is left blank intentionally	yes
Koert	This space is left blank intentionally	yes
nicodache	is This left intentionally space blank (and #@! whoever changed my comment :-))	yes
Tazo	This space is left blank intentionally	yes
Marc	This space is left blank intentionally	yes
Jobj	wtf copy/past generation	yes
Skawouter	not 100% shure jet	yes
tvlooy	can haz python?	yes
Xflame		yes
zoobab	no comment
U_go		yes
Thomas		yes

Readline

# Add auto-completion and a stored history file of commands to your Python
# interactive interpreter. Requires Python 2.0+, readline. Autocomplete is
# bound to the Esc key by default (you can change it - see readline docs).
#
# Store the file in ~/.pystartup, and set an environment variable to point
# to it:  "export PYTHONSTARTUP=/home/user/.pystartup" in bash.
#
# Note that PYTHONSTARTUP does *not* expand "~", so you have to put in the
# full path to your home directory.

import atexit
import os
import readline
import rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')
historyPath = os.path.expanduser("~/.pyhistory")

def save_history(historyPath=historyPath):
    import readline
    readline.write_history_file(historyPath)

if os.path.exists(historyPath):
    readline.read_history_file(historyPath)

atexit.register(save_history)
del os, atexit, readline, rlcompleter, save_history, historyPath

Hello World

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

print "Hello HSB"

spawning processes

 import subprocess

don't try popen, os.system, or whatever else

Presentation

Here is the pdf of the quick introduction from the beginning of the workshop:

File:Python-workshop.pdf