Atlas Book Skeleton by Brownley, Clinton W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface

How to Read This Book Conventions Used in This Book About Early Release books from O’Reilly Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us

Why Read This Book? Why Learn These Skills? Who Is This Book For? Why Windows Why Python Base Python and Pandas Anaconda Python

To install Anaconda Python (Windows or Mac)

Text Editors Download Book Materials Base Python and Pandas Overview of Chapters

2. Python Basics

Running Python in the Shell How To Create a Python Script How to Run a Python Script A few more hints for interacting with the command line

Up Arrow for Previous Command Ctrl+c to Stop a Script Read and Search for Solutions to Error Messages Add More Code to first_script.py

Python’s Basic Building Blocks Numbers

Integers Floating-point numbers

Strings

Split Join Strip Replace Lower, Upper, Capitalize

Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching Dates Lists

Create a list Index values List slices Copy a list IN and NOT IN Append, Remove, Pop Reverse Sorting

Tuples

Create a tuple >Unpack tuples Convert tuple to list, list to tuple

Dictionaries

Create a dictionary Keys Copy IN, NOT IN, and GET Sort

Control Flow

If-Else If-Elif-Else For Loops Compact For Loops: List, Set, and Dictionary Comprehensions

List Comprehension Set Comprehension Dictionary Comprehension

While Loops Functions Exceptions Try-Except Try-Except-Else-Finally Reading a Text File

Create a text file Script and Input File in Same Location Modern File Reading Syntax Reading Multiple Text Files with Glob

Create another text file

Writing to a Text File Writing to a Comma Separated Values “CSV” File

Print Statements Chapter Exercises: