Additional Python Facilities

Python module Y115

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module Y115. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Python, Python Programming

Python threads - a first example

If you have a process that you want to do several things at the same time, threads may be the answer for you. They let you set up a series of processes ...

http://www.wellho.net/solutions/python-p ... ample.html [longer article]

Python Programming - training course - The fundamentals in depth, and an introduction to applications such as GUI design and Data Munging.

Python Programming - The fundamentals in depth, and an introduction to applications such as GUI design and Data Munging. This course starts at the fundamentals ...

http://www.wellho.net/course/ypfull.html [course]

Learning to Program in Python - training course - The fundamentals in depth, and an introduction to applications such as GUI design and Data Munging.

Learning to Program in Python - The fundamentals in depth, and an introduction to applications such as GUI design and Data Munging. This course starts ...

http://www.wellho.net/course/ylfull.html [course]

Python environment variables

#!/usr/bin/python import os for param in os.environ.keys(): print "%20s %s" % (param,os.environ[param]) """ These are the standard Python environment ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=y115/penv.py [code sample]

Sending an email from Python

Good question - came up on the course yesterday and all the examples I could find were longwinded or obfursacted to avoid them abusing the email addresses ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1043_Sen ... ython.html [short article]

Ignore case in Regular Expression

Do you want to ignore case in a regular expression? There are a variety of ways of doing it ... depending on the language you're writing. Here are ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1336_Ign ... ssion.html [short article]

Pattern Matching - a primer on regular Expressions

div class= introsubheads PATTERN MATCHING (OR HOW TO DO A LOOK LIKE) BR /div You can test a string against a pattern (known as a REGULAR EXPRESSION ...

http://www.wellho.net/solutions/php-patt ... sions.html [longer article]

Python is a wide-ranging language, so you won't have learnt everything about it on the early stages of your course. In this module, we assume fundamentals knowledge, and we go on to cover some of the more advanced features of the language that you'll need as you go on to write larger applications of the type that Python's so well suited to.

This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Python, Python Programming

Examples from our training material

bench.py	Find largest 5 files in or below a directory
class_v_static.py	Decorators - your own, plus @classmethod and @staticmethod
cli.py	Report on command line parameters
cpick	Store an object via cPickle
cunpick	recover a pickled object
currency.py	Formatting a currency using Regular Expression
emma	Regular expression then split
eo2.py	Scanning log file for instability
flist.py	All the files in a directory - which is largest?
gad1.py	Create a Gadfly (SQL) database and insert data
gad2.py	Running an SQL query - Gadfly
get_os.py	Get Operating System information
hostfilter.py	Extract host computer information - strip comments with regular expressions
mar_in.py	Loading in an object saved via the marshal module
mar_out.py	Marshal converts an object to a string
myuser.py	class for use in pickle / unpickle demo
penv.py	Python environment variables
pocohunter	Looking for postcodes in a string
psplit	Splitting at a string v splitting at a regular expression
py_mysql.py	MySQL to Python using MySQL Connector
pysql_another	Using a MySQL database - select across multiple tables
python_mysql_web.py	Python, MySQL, CGI (Web) board
re1.py	Regular expression - first example
re2.py	Stripping spaces
re3.py	Find email addresses in line of text
re4.py	Regular expression split over several lines
refun	evaluating a net list in EQN format
relib.py	Some common regular expressions
retest.py	Regular Expression test engine
sql1.py	Hello MySQL World in Python
sql1a.py	MySQL to Python using MySQLdb
sqlite.py	Sqlite3 / Python 3 example
subp	Subprocess module - replacement for os.popen
syscommand	Running an operating system command in Python
tim	Some time handlers
timestuff.py	Some time handling

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

Is Python compiled or interpreted?.
Regular expressions in Python.
Elements of a Python-style regular expression.
Anchors (Assertions).
Literal characters.
Character groups.
Counts.
Alternation.
Grouping.
Modifiers.
Some examples.
Methods available on Python regular expressions.
Some more examples and features of regular expressions.
Some popular regular expressions.
Running Python and system commands from within.
Handling dates and times in Python.
Pickling and shelving.
Accessing the environment from Python.
Talking to SQL databases from Python.

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