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Python tutorial

The goal of this tutorial is to give prospective itom users a quick overview about the basic Python v3 commands and how to use them within itom.

Content

• Creating a project folder and run a first program
  • Create a project folder
  • Creating a .py file and running it
  • Encoding of files
• Variables and names
  • Using variables
• Strings and text
  • Strings
  • String formatting
  • More on strings
  • Byte array....
• Dictionaries, Lists and Tuples
  • Dictionaries
  • Lists
  • Tuples
• If and else statements
  • if Statements
• Loops and Lists
  • for Statements
  • The range Function
  • break and continue Statements, and else Clauses on Loops
• Classes and Objects
  • Classes
• Scopes and Namespaces Example
• Class Definition Syntax
• Class Objects
• Instance Objects
• Method Objects
• Multiple Inheritance
• Functions
  • Defining Functions
• Default Argument Values
• Keyword Arguments
• Arbitrary Argument Lists
• Unpacking Argument Lists
• Lambda Forms
• Documentation Strings
• Modules
  • Import Modules
  • Reload Modules in itom
  • path Variablen
  • itom-packages Folder
• Executing modules as scripts
• The Module Search Path
• “Compiled” Python files
• Importing * From a Package
• Intra-package References
• Packages in Multiple Directories
• Prompting and passing
• Reading and writing files

The following resources have been used:

• Python-Kurs (v3) (German)
• Python Course (v3) (English)
• Official Python 3 documentation
• Moving from Python 2 to Python 3 (Cheatsheet)
• Dive into Python (v3)
• Learn Python The Hard Way (be careful: Python 2)
• Python Tutorial on javas2s.com (v2)
• Python examples (example source code) on javas2s.com (v2)
• Python Tutorial on tutorialspoint.com (v2)