Welcome to Python 101! — Python 101 1.0 documentation
The first part is the beginner section. In it you will learn all the basics of Python. From Python types (strings, lists, dictionaries) to conditional statements to loops. You will also learn about comprehensions, functions and classes and everything in between!
Introduction — Python 101 1.0 documentation - Python Library
Some people think Python is just for writing little scripts to glue together “real” code, like C++ or Haskell. However you will find Python to be useful in almost any situation. Python is used by lots of big name companies such as Google, NASA, LinkedIn, Industrial Light …
Part I - Learning the Basics — Python 101 1.0 documentation
In Part I, we will learn the basics of the Python programming language. This section of the book should get you ready to use all the building blocks of Python so that you will be ready to tackle the following sections confidently.
Chapter 11 - Classes — Python 101 1.0 documentation - Python …
Everything in Python is an object. That’s a very vague statement unless you’ve taken a computer programming class or two. What this means is that every thing in Python has methods and values. The reason is that everything is based on a class. A class is the blueprint of an object. Let’s take a look at what I mean:
Chapter 10 - Functions — Python 101 1.0 documentation - Python …
Sometimes when you are writing out some code, you just want to write the function definitions without putting any code in them. I’ve done this as kind of an outline. It helps you to see how your application is going to be laid out.
Chapter 1 - IDLE Programming — Python 101 1.0 documentation
Python comes with its own code editor: IDLE (Integrated Development and Learning Environment). There is some lore that the name for IDLE comes from Eric Idle, an actor in Monty Python. An IDE is an editor for programmers that provides color highlighting of key words in the language, auto-complete, an “experimental” debugger and lots of ...
Chapter 2 - All About Strings — Python 101 1.0 documentation
There are several data types in Python. The main data types that you’ll probably see the most are string, integer, float, list, dict and tuple. In this chapter, we’ll cover the string data type. You’ll be surprised how many things you can do with strings in Python right out of the box.
Chapter 5 - Loops — Python 101 1.0 documentation - Python Library
Let’s take a moment to figure out what this code does. First off, we create a dictionary that has integers for keys instead of strings. Then we extract the keys from the dictionary. Whenever you call the keys() method, it will return an unordered list of the keys.
Part II - Learning from the Library — Python 101 1.0 documentation
In Part II, you will get an abbreviated tour of some of the Python Standard Library. The reason it’s abbreviated is that the Python Standard Library is HUGE! So this section is to get you acquainted with using the modules that come with Python.
Chapter 33 - The requests package — Python 101 1.0 …
The requests package is a more Pythonic replacement for Python’s own urllib. You will find that requests package’s API is quite a bit simpler to work with. You can install the requests library by using pip or easy_install or from source.