Raymond Hettinger

Description

Build-up your Python skills by working on a short, focused project.

This fun workshop is a hands-on class teaching many core Python skills.

We practice test driven development to create and apply a unittest module.

Skills covered:

• Logging module

• Named tuples

• Classes and special methods

• Writing and using context managers

• Exception handling

• Conditional expressions

• main sections

• Assertions

• getattr() and hasattr()

• F-strings

• Test driven development

• The doctest, unittest and py.test modules

• Code organization and documentation

Abstract

Description

Beef-up your Python skills by working on a small, focused project.

This fun workshop is a hands-on class teaching foundational Python skills.

We'll create a working web framework from scratch.

Skills covered:

• Function attributes
• dict.get() and getattr()
• Batch function runners with filtering
• Function based decorators
• The @-notation
• Dispatch dictionaries
• input() and interactive function runners
• Exception handling
• Class based decorators with arguments
• global variables
• Formatting with F-strings

• HTTP headers and status codes

• The dataclasses module and type declarations

• Joining lists of strings

• JSON encoding and decoding

• Query string parsing

• Dictionary comprehensions

• How WSGI works (web standards gateway interface)

• String encoding and decoding

• Making apps for the wsgiref module

• REST APIs

• Modules: logging, wsgiref, http, urllib.parse, wsgiref

• Briefly show Flask and Bottle

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