Audience
This course is perfect for System Engineers and System Administrators new to Python, who would like an introduction to the language and how it can be used to script administrative tasks.
Prerequisites
You should have experience managing Linux systems.
Familiarity with another object-oriented language would be an advantage.
The course assumes no prior knowledge of Python.
Duration
3 days.
Course Objectives
Python is a powerful and popular object-oriented scripting language. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the core syntax and functions provided by Python, with a particular focushow it can be used to script administrative tasks, enabling those who manage Linux systems to do so more efficiently. The course concludes with an overview of Fabric; a high-level Python library that facilitates systems administration through remote execution of shell commands on multiple hosts over SSH, returning useful Python objects.
What you'll learn:
- Writing clean Python code
- Working with functions and objects
- Working with text and regular expressions
- Handing exceptions
- Manipulating files
- Working with Fabric
Course Content
Getting Started with Python
Overview of Python
Installing Python
Getting ready to develop
Python Language Fundamentals
Overview of core Python syntax rules
Simple data types and variables
Object essentials
Flow control
Working with Functions
The benefit of functions
Writing and calling functions
Passing parameters
Exception Handling
Overview of exceptions in Python
Handling exceptions
Raising exceptions
Design issues
Collections
Overview of collections in Python
Lists
Tuples
Sets
Dictionaries
Strings and Regular Expressions
Overview of strings in Python
Basic string manipulation
Introduction to regular expressions
Using regular expressions in Python
Classes and Iterators
Defining classes
Instance variables
Iterators
Creating and initializing objects
File Handling
Overview of file handling in Python
Reading and writing text files
Working with binary files
Streaming and serializing Python objects
Fabric Overview
Remote execution
Connections
Running commands
Transferring files
Super-user privileges