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Building Useful Project Utils in Python

NDC Conferences via YouTube

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YouTube
Pricing

Conference Talk
Languages

English
Effort

51 minutes
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate

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This talk shows how to build and maintain project utilities in Python, including how to grow small scripts into modular, reusable programs with tests and command-line interfaces. It assumes some familiarity with Python and uses examples from a large embedded software project.

Syllabus

Intro
Prerequisites
What scripts are we talking about?
Why is Python better? - Syntax
Why is Python better?-Data structures and types
Why is Python better? - Modularity
Code organization
Command-line interfaces in Python
Runting other programs from Python-subprocess
Manipulating the flesystem from Python-pathlib
Writing unit tests in Python-doctest
Writing unit tests in Python-unittest
Writing unit tests in Python - pytest
binst shell script
System with multiple devices
Summary