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Python is a popular programming language used by system administrators, developers, and data scientists to create web applications, custom Red Hat Ansible Automation modules, perform statistical analysis, and train AI/ML models. This course introduces the Python language and teaches fundamental concepts like control flow, loops, data structures, functions, file I/O, regular expressions, parsing JSON, and debugging. This course is based on Python 3 and RHEL 9.
Course objectives:
Learn how to install Python and set up an IDE to work with scripts efficiently.
Review the Basics of Python syntax, functions and data types.
Learn how to debug Python scripts using the Python debugger (pdb). Gain an understanding of Python data structures like dictionaries, sets, tuples and lists to handle compound data.
Learn Object-oriented programming in Python and Exception Handling.
Learn how to read and write files in Python and parse JSON data.
Use powerful regular expressions in Python to manipulate text.
Structure large Python programs effectively by using modules and namespaces.
Learn how to use third-party libraries using the pip CLI tool.
