Python refresher

1. Builtin data types

2. Lists and tuples

3. Dictionaries and sets

4. Program structure

5. Files and console I/O

6. If statement

7. for and while loops

OS Services

1. The os and os.path modules

2. Environment variables

3. Launching external commands with subprocess

4. Walking directory trees

5. Paths, directories, and filenames

6. Working with file systems

Dates and Times

1. Basic date and time classes

2. Different time formats

3. Converting between formats

4. Formatting dates and times

5. Parsing date/time information

Binary Data

1. What is Binary Data?

2. Binary vs text

3. Using the Struct module

Pythonic Programming

1. The Zen of Python

2. Tuples

3. Advanced unpacking

4. Sorting

5. Lambda functions

6. List comprehensions

7. Generator expressions

8. String formatting

Functions, modules, and packages

1. Four types of function parameters

2. Four levels of name scoping

3. Single/multi dispatch

4. Relative imports

5. Using init effectively

6. Documentation best practices

Intermediate classes

1. Class/static data and methods

2. Inheritance (or composition)

3. Abstract base classes

4. Implementing protocols (context, iterator, etc.) with special methods

Metaprogramming

1. Implicit properties

2. globals() and locals()

3. Working with object attributes

4. The inspect module

5. Callable classes

6. Decorators

7. Monkey patching

Developer Tools

1. Analyzing programs with pylint

2. Using the debugger

3. Profiling code

4. Testing speed with benchmarking

Unit testing with PyTest

1. What is a unit test?

2. Writing tests

3. Working with fixtures

4. Test runners

5. Mocking resources

Database access

1. The DB API

2. Available Interfaces

3. Connecting to a server

4. Creating and executing a cursor

5. Fetching data

6. Parameterized statements

7. Using Metadata

8. Transaction control

9. ORMs and NoSQL overview

PyQt

1. Overview

2. Qt Architecture

3. Using designer

4. Standard widgets

5. Event handling

6. Extras

Network Programming

1. Builtin classes

2. Using requests

3. Grabbing web pages

4. Sending email

5. Working with binary data

6. Consuming RESTful services

7. Remote access (SSH)

Multiprogramming

1. The threading module

2. Sharing variables

3. The queue module

4. The multiprocessing module

5. Creating pools

6. About async programming

Scripting for System Administration

1. Running external programs

2. Parsing arguments

3. Creating filters to read text files

4. Implementing logging

Serializing data

1. Parsing XML with ElementTree

2. Updating the XML tree

3. Creating new XML documents

4. Reading/Writing JSON data

5. Reading/writing CSV data

6. YAML, other formats

Virtual Environments

1. Use case for

2. Creating an environment

3. Activating and deactivating

4. Replicating an environment

5. Useful tools

Type hinting

1. Annotate variables

2. Learn what type hinting does NOT do

3. Use the typing module for detailed type hints

4. Understand union and optional types

5. Write stub interfaces

Advanced data handling

1. Discover the collections module

2. Use defaultdict, Counter, and namedtuple

3. Create dataclasses

4. Store data offline with pickle