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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


In this chapter, we learned about functions and how to define a function. Then we discussed various types of functions such as built-in and user-defined functions. We saw various examples of user-defined functions, where we explained functions with no arguments and no return type, functions with arguments, functions with arguments and return type, functions with default arguments, and functions with variable length arguments. We also learned about key-value pairs being passed as a variable length argument to the function. We came across the scope of the variable and, finally, we examined the basic concepts of memory management where we learned about two types of memory, namely, stack and heap.

In the next chapter we will learn about quite an interesting topic: collections.