The Advanced Python 3 training course aims to take attendees beyond basic Python.
The course will enable attendees to enable to produce more efficient, safer and maintainable code using standard Python idioms.
The course assumes you are happy with core Python concepts and syntax.

Requirements

Delegates should have taken an Introduction to Python 3 course or have six months of Python programming experience.

Course content

OO Programming in Python

Classes/objects
Constructors/destructors
Methods instance/class
Inheritance/polymorphism
Abstract classes
Privacy/data hiding
Data attribute control

Meta Programming

Monkey patching
Meta classes

Functional Programming in Python

Map/filter/reduce
Decorators
Closures
Lambdas
Comprehensions
Generators
Use of yield
The itertools module

Collections

The collections module (defaultdict/Counter …)
The array module

Data Transfer (Parsing/Generation)

XML
JSON
YAML

Concurrency

Threads
Processes
Coroutines

Testing with pytest

Debugging with pdb

Potential Extra Topics

Socket programming
Integrating with C
RESTful services