Advanced Python

Course details

Take your Python skills to the next level. In this hands-on, interactive course, instructor Joe Marini shows how to leverage advanced Python features such as object-oriented special class methods, and how to make your code run more efficiently and easier to read and maintain. From iterators and sequences to string processing and exceptions, Joe covers a wide range of topics uniquely framed for experienced developers. This course includes Code Challenges powered by CoderPad. Code Challenges are interactive coding exercises with real-time feedback, so you can get hands-on coding practice to advance your coding skills.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Getting set up
03 - Using CoderPad

1. Python Features

04 - Documentation strings
05 - Special variable names
06 - Understanding scope
07 - Truth value testing
08 - The assignment expression
09 - Using print and pprint

2. Using Iterators

10 - Basic iterators
11 - More iterators
12 - For-else
13 - Itertools - count, cycle, accumulate
14 - Itertools - chain, chain.from iterable, batched
15 - Itertools - dropwhile, takewhile, filterfalse
16 - Itertools - combinations and permutations
17 - Solution - Using Iterators

3. String Processing

18 - Built-in string constants
19 - String searching
20 - String manipulation
21 - String formatting
22 - Solution - String processing

4. Working with Sequences

23 - Sequence slicing
24 - Comparing sequences
25 - Overview of comprehensions
26 - Using list comprehensions
27 - Working with set comprehensions
28 - Using dictionary comprehensions
29 - Solution - Sequences

5. Exceptions

30 - What are exceptions
31 - Handling exceptions
32 - Common exception types
33 - Custom exceptions
34 - Challenge - Exceptions
35 - Solution - Exceptions

Conclusion

36 - Next steps

Advanced Python

Authors

Joe Marini