Advance Python Programming (APP)

Unit 1 Review of python 8 topics

• Basic of python
• Program structure
• Data Types
• Operators
• control flow
• function
• module and package
• classes and objects

Unit 1 notes

Unit 2 Socket Programming 3 topics

• Client-side programming using python: TCP and UDP based clients and servers
• High-level library modules for standard Internet and web-related services (HTTP, FTP, XML-RPC, etc.)
• urllib2 module for interacting with web servers

Unit 2 notes

Unit 3 Internet Data Handling 2 topics

• Processing common Internet data formats such as HTML, XML, and JSON
• ElementTree interface for parsing XML

Unit 3 notes

Unit 4 Web Programming 4 topics

• Basics of web programming in Python
• CGI scripting
• WSGI interface
• Implementing custom HTTP servers

Unit 4 notes

Unit 5 Advanced Networking 4 topics

• Writing custom TCP/UDP servers
• Concurrency
• SSL
• Introduction to message passing

Unit 5 notes

Unit 6 Thread Programming 8 topics

• Overview of concurrent programming with threads and advanced Python programming idioms
• threading library
• Thread debugging
• Thread synchronization
• Threads and queues
• Python interpreter execution model and the GIL
• logging module
• Context managers

Unit 7 Message Passing and Data Serialization 3 topics

• Interprocess communication, message passing, and data serialization
• pickle and ctypes
• Multiprocessing: process objects, pipes, queues, shared memory objects, and process pools

Unit 8 Distributed Computing 3 topics

• Core programming concepts such as actors, client/server computing, REST, remote procedure call, and distributed objects
• XML-RPC
• Use of multiprocessing library to implement distributed objects

Unit 9 Advanced I/O handling 5 topics

• Blocking I/O
• Nonblocking I/O
• Polling
• Signal-driven I/O
• Asynchronous I/O

Unit 10 Generators and Coroutines 4 topics

• Using generators and coroutines to implement cooperative multitasking
• tasklets
• greenlets
• coroutines