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- 1. Tutorials
- Basics
- Collections
- Advanced
- Python Modules
- 2. Exercises
- 3. Challenges
- Python Online Compiler
- Other Tutorials
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The Python Tutorial¶
Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python’s elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms.
The Python interpreter and the extensive standard library are freely available in source or binary form for all major platforms from the Python web site, https://www.python.org/, and may be freely distributed. The same site also contains distributions of and pointers to many free third party Python modules, programs and tools, and additional documentation.
The Python interpreter is easily extended with new functions and data types implemented in C or C++ (or other languages callable from C). Python is also suitable as an extension language for customizable applications.
This tutorial introduces the reader informally to the basic concepts and features of the Python language and system. It helps to have a Python interpreter handy for hands-on experience, but all examples are self-contained, so the tutorial can be read off-line as well.
For a description of standard objects and modules, see The Python Standard Library . The Python Language Reference gives a more formal definition of the language. To write extensions in C or C++, read Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter and Python/C API Reference Manual . There are also several books covering Python in depth.
This tutorial does not attempt to be comprehensive and cover every single feature, or even every commonly used feature. Instead, it introduces many of Python’s most noteworthy features, and will give you a good idea of the language’s flavor and style. After reading it, you will be able to read and write Python modules and programs, and you will be ready to learn more about the various Python library modules described in The Python Standard Library .
The Glossary is also worth going through.
- 1. Whetting Your Appetite
- 2. Using the Python Interpreter
- 2.1. Invoking the Interpreter
- 2.1.1. Argument Passing
- 2.1.2. Interactive Mode
- 2.2.1. Source Code Encoding
- 3.1. Using Python as a Calculator
- 3.1.1. Numbers
- 3.1.2. Text
- 3.1.3. Lists
- 4.1. if Statements
- 4.2. for Statements
- 4.3. The range() Function
- 4.4. break and continue Statements, and else Clauses on Loops
- 4.5. pass Statements
- 4.6. match Statements
- 4.7. Defining Functions
- 4.8. More on Defining Functions
- 4.8.1. Default Argument Values
- 4.8.2. Keyword Arguments
- 4.8.3. Special parameters
- 4.8.3.1. Positional-or-Keyword Arguments
- 4.8.3.2. Positional-Only Parameters
- 4.8.3.3. Keyword-Only Arguments
- 4.8.3.4. Function Examples
- 4.8.3.5. Recap
- 5.1. More on Lists
- 5.1.1. Using Lists as Stacks
- 5.1.2. Using Lists as Queues
- 5.1.3. List Comprehensions
- 5.1.4. Nested List Comprehensions
- 6.1. More on Modules
- 6.1.1. Executing modules as scripts
- 6.1.2. The Module Search Path
- 6.1.3. “Compiled” Python files
- 6.4.1. Importing * From a Package
- 6.4.2. Intra-package References
- 6.4.3. Packages in Multiple Directories
- 7.1. Fancier Output Formatting
- 7.1.1. Formatted String Literals
- 7.1.2. The String format() Method
- 7.1.3. Manual String Formatting
- 7.1.4. Old string formatting
- 7.2.1. Methods of File Objects
- 7.2.2. Saving structured data with json
- 8.1. Syntax Errors
- 8.2. Exceptions
- 8.3. Handling Exceptions
- 8.4. Raising Exceptions
- 8.5. Exception Chaining
- 8.6. User-defined Exceptions
- 8.7. Defining Clean-up Actions
- 8.8. Predefined Clean-up Actions
- 8.9. Raising and Handling Multiple Unrelated Exceptions
- 8.10. Enriching Exceptions with Notes
- 9.1. A Word About Names and Objects
- 9.2. Python Scopes and Namespaces
- 9.2.1. Scopes and Namespaces Example
- 9.3.1. Class Definition Syntax
- 9.3.2. Class Objects
- 9.3.3. Instance Objects
- 9.3.4. Method Objects
- 9.3.5. Class and Instance Variables
- 9.5.1. Multiple Inheritance
- 10.1. Operating System Interface
- 10.2. File Wildcards
- 10.3. Command Line Arguments
- 10.4. Error Output Redirection and Program Termination
- 10.5. String Pattern Matching
- 10.6. Mathematics
- 10.7. Internet Access
- 10.8. Dates and Times
- 10.9. Data Compression
- 10.10. Performance Measurement
- 10.11. Quality Control
- 10.12. Batteries Included
- 11.1. Output Formatting
- 11.2. Templating
- 11.3. Working with Binary Data Record Layouts
- 11.4. Multi-threading
- 11.5. Logging
- 11.6. Weak References
- 11.7. Tools for Working with Lists
- 11.8. Decimal Floating Point Arithmetic
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Creating Virtual Environments
- 12.3. Managing Packages with pip
- 14.1. Tab Completion and History Editing
- 14.2. Alternatives to the Interactive Interpreter
- 15.1. Representation Error
- 16.1. Interactive Mode
- 16.1.1. Error Handling
- 16.1.2. Executable Python Scripts
- 16.1.3. The Interactive Startup File
- 16.1.4. The Customization Modules
Python Examples
Welcome to PythonExamples.org. We provide three different paths to learn Python programming easily at your own pace that matches with your learning style. They are Tutorials, Exercises, and Challenges.
1. Tutorials
This is a huge collection of Python tutorials with well detailed examples and programs. In these tutorials, we cover basics of Python programming, advanced concepts, and most regularly used Python modules.
Basics
The following tutorials cover the basic core concepts of Python language.
Collections
The following tutorials cover the types of collections in Python language.
Advanced
Advanced tutorials cover file operations, regular expressions, multi-threading, etc.
Python Modules
The following tutorials cover some of the most used packages or modules in Python programming.
- Python datetime
- Python flask
- Python json
- Python logging
- Python math
- Python mysql
- Python nltk
- Python numpy
- Python opencv
- Python pandas
- Python phonenumbers
- Python pickle
- Python pillow
- Python pymongo
- Python random
- Python requests
- Python selenium
- Python sqlite3
- Python tkinter
2. Exercises
The exercises will help you test your skills on the syntax of Python programming basics. Each exercise has a description of what to do, and a program with input text fields. When you enter your input and click on the Submit button, it checks whether you answered correctly or not.
If you are not aware of the answer, you may click on Show Answer button, and it will display the answer. And you may click on the Reset button to clear the answers, and try again yourself.
3. Challenges
The challenges will help you test your problem solving skills using Python programming. Each challenge has a use case with a requirement. The inputs and required outputs for the challenge are defined. A program editor with the boilerplate code is given. You have to complete the code, and Run Tests.
If you are not aware of the solution, you may click on Show Answer button floating on the bottom right corner of the program editor window. You can also reset the code to the boilerplate version, or Download the the program from the current program editor window.
Python Online Compiler
When you are going through the tutorials, under example programs, you will find a small button Run Code Online as shown in the following.
When you click on that button, it takes you to a new window with the program in the code block above the button.
On the left side is the program editor window, where you can make changes to the code. When you are done with the code changes, click on the Run button. The buttons before the Run button are the Home, Download, and Reset button from left to right respectively.
The output is displayed in the right side panel under Output.
Other Tutorials
The following references cover tutorials for other scripting or programming languages.
- 2.1. Invoking the Interpreter