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Over the last few years, Python has gained immense popularity. The demand for the programming language in the job market has particularly increased and being well-versed with it can help you enter some of the most exciting industries, including data science, artificial intelligence (AI), web applications, server-side automation, and home automation. This course will make it easy for you to learn Python, with an emphasis on server-side automation. You will not only get to grips with core Python but also focus on advanced Python. Gradually, the course will take you through writing a Python script to print the OS name. You’ll also learn how to pass elements into a program using *args. To build on your knowledge further, you’ll understand the technique of transferring a file from a local server to a remote server and vice versa using paramiko. By the end of this course, you will have learned how to automate a wide variety of tasks with the help of Python scripting. All codes and supporting files are available at- https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Complete-Python-Scripting-for-Automation

Introduction

Introduction to the Python

Python setup on Windows

Python setup on Linux (Installing required python on Linux)

Editors for Python code

How to use Atom Editor to run python script

Basics of print, indentation, comments and special characters

simple hello world script

Python Indentation

Python Comments

Usage of special characters with print statement

Running Python script on Windows and Linux

Basics of variables and Data Types

Introduction to variables and print with variables

Data Types

working with multiple variable and strings in print

Input and Output Syntax

Complete String Operations

Basic operations on strings

case (Lower, Upper etc...) conversion operations

Boolean result operations

join, center and zfill (zero fill)

strip, split operations

count, index and find operations on strings

Practice: Display given string at left/right/center of a line in title format

Data Structures of Python

Introduction to Data Structures and Types of Data Structures

Lists

Tuples

Dictionaries

Sets

Operators of Python

Introduction to Operators of Python

Arithmetic and Assignment Operators

Comparison Operators

Identity and Membership operators

Logical Operators

Conditional statements

Introduction to conditional statements; simple if condition

if ... else and if ... elif ... elif ... else condition

Practice with conditional statements

Working with Python Modules

Introduction to Python Modules

platform module

getpass module

sys module

Introduction to sys module

sys.argv | working with command line arguments with an example

OS Module

Introduction to OS Module and Basic operation

os.path module

os.system() function from os module

Practice script on platform and os module

os.walk(path)

Best Practice with os.walk for real-time

Loops - for and while loops with break, continue and pass

Practice: Read a path and check if given path is a file or a directory

Introduction to loops with an example

Loops | Working with for loop

Simple practice with for loop

Find all files in a directory with required extension.py/.sh/.log/.txt etc…

Complete range() function

for loop to work with strings, list, tuple and dictionaries

Introduction to while loop

Loop Control statements: break, continue and pass

datetime module to work with dates and times

Introduction to datetime module

Practice: Find the files which are older than x days from a given path

subprocess Module: To execute any Operating System Commands with python

Introduction to subprocess module

Practice-1 with subprocess module

Practice-2: Platform independent script to find the java version

Working with text files

Working with text files: Reading and writing to text files

Copy the content of a source file into a destination file

Working with csv

Introduction to csv files and How to read a csv files using python?

Read only header of a csv file and Finding the no of rows in a csv file

Creating csv file

Working with files like json

Working with json files

Exception Handling

Introduction to Exception Handling

Exception Handling for known Exceptions

try except else and finally usage

Raise user Defined Exceptions

Functions

Introduction to Functions

How to define a Function and How to use defined Function, Types of Functions

Converting simple code into Functions

Calling a function from another function and Scope of the variables

Simple Functions with arguments

Functions with arguments and return value

Functions with default arguments

Functions with keyword-based arguments

Functions with Variable length arguments

Functions with variable keyword arguments

How to use Functions of one script into another script, what is __name__ ?

Simple exception handling to changing current working directory

Regular expression with re module

Introduction to regular expressions

Basic rules to create a pattern for regex

Rules to create a pattern Part-2

Regex with Flags

working with search and match operations from re module

working with findall and finditer operations

working with split, sub and subn operations of re module

compile operation (Execute all re operations on compile object)

Paramiko module to work with remote servers using python

Introduction to paramiko

Transfer file from local server to remote server and vice versa using paramiko

Shutil module

Part-1: copy file(s) with shutil module

OOPS for Real Time

Introduction to oops

Class and object attributes

Constructor of a class

Simple Python Script without and with oops concepts

destructor of a class

Polymorphism and inheritance of python oops

Encapsulation

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Linux for Developers on Windows

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