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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Lists


All right then, we are quite sure on how to use the servo and have a controlled motion as per our needs. Now it's time to move forward and understand another concept that we would be using greatly. It's named arrays. If you have programmed in any other language, you must be familiar with it. But we need to understand a few basics concepts of it, which will make our lives a lot easier. So, let's get started.

First things, first. Arrays in Python are not named arrays, rather it is named as lists. List is basically a data structure that can store multiple elements at the same time. The only limitation being is that the elements must be of the same data type. Such as if you are storing integers, then all the values should be int. Similarly, if you are storing a character, then every element of the list should be char. To define a list, all you need to do is name the list such as we have done by doing myList; the name of the list could be anything next we need to tell the compiler that it...