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Learn Python in 7 Days

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Learn Python in 7 Days

Overview of this book

Python is a great language to get started in the world of programming and application development. This book will help you to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python. We begin with the absolute foundation, covering the basic syntax, type variables and operators. We'll then move on to concepts like statements, arrays, operators, string processing and I/O handling. You’ll be able to learn how to operate tuples and understand the functions and methods of lists. We’ll help you develop a deep understanding of list and tuples and learn python dictionary. As you progress through the book, you’ll learn about function parameters and how to use control statements with the loop. You’ll further learn how to create modules and packages, storing of data as well as handling errors. We later dive into advanced level concepts such as Python collections and how to use class, methods, objects in python. By the end of this book, you will be able to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
2
Type Variables and Operators

Summary


We started with understanding the concept of control statements and why they are essential in our day-to-day programming problems. We had a chance to look into two functions range() and xrange() that are used to generate a list on-the-fly. We learned about definite loops and indefinite loops. We also learned about the difference between definite and indefinite loops. Under definite loops, we learned about various control statements such as if, if...else, if...elif...else, and for loop. While, in indefinite loops, we had a chance to study the while statement and how we can also use the while loop to work as a definite loop. We saw the usage of while with the break statement and without the break statement. We also looked into the working of the continue and pass statements.

In the next chapter, we will learn about functions and scope of variables.