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Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module Y117. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in Python, Python Programming

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3479	Practical Extraction and Reporting - using Python and Extreme Programming "We seem to be getting a lot of signups from Germany" - so said my fellow administrator on the First Great Western Coffee Shop forum. At first glance is something of a surprise, as this forum is "provided by a First Great Western Customer, for First Great Western customers" and First Great Western run ...	2011-10-14
3465	How can I do an FTP transfer in Python? "If you think someone's probably done it before, they probably have .... and it's probably available to you" A good answer to many questions of the form "can I do xxxxx in Python?" Question today "can I do an FTP transfer from Python" Answer "Yes" [but I had a look around and discovered there was on ...	2011-10-05
3442	A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together Many of our demonstrations on the Well House Consultants site show individual features of a language - taken in isolaion to show you how they work. However, during a course we usually write further examples to show you how features work in combination to give a total result / solution to an application. On ...	2011-09-16 (longest)
2931	Syncronise - software, trains, and buses. Please! To get from my home to the Divisional Police HQ on another side of Melksham, I can take a five minute bus ride on the X72 or 272, change at the Market Place onto the 234 or X34, and ride for another five minutes. So for a meeting at 19:00, I can catch a bus just after 18:00 to be there in good time, ...	2010-08-24
2890	Dates and times in Python Python comes with a great variety of standard classes - including some very neat ones to handle dates and times. [Here] is a link to an example written on last week's Python course which took a couple of dates as strings, split them down and proceeded with date arithmetic. I always have to marvel at ...	2010-07-30
2506	Good example of recursion in Python - analyse an RSS feed I'm not keen on recursive code - code that calls itself. Very often, such code is elegant in a way, yet so 'clever' that it is hard to follow. There are, however, exceptions where I say "THAT is a good use of recursion". Once such is in the handling / parsing of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. I ...	2009-11-20
2020	Learning Python - many new example programs I ran a public Python course earlier this week ... and (as I usually do!) wrote a number of short examples during the class to show the delegates not only how something is done, but also how the coding process works and how the particular answers are developed. I can't show you that process here on ...	2009-02-08 (longer)

Examples from our training material

butter	Regular Expressions
dates	Date and Time - short example
fgrab	FTP transfers

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

Built in objects.
Standard modules.
time, re, unittest etc.
The Vaults of Parnassus and the Cheeseshop.
Sourceforge and other sources.
wx, tkinter, qt.

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