Weekly Python Exercise B2

What you’ll learn

• Unlocking the immense power of decorators – learn how and where to implement them
• Understanding threading and multiprocessing – and comparing the two of them
• Defining classes and object-oriented programming – finally getting them to “click” in your brain if you’ve been stumped until now
• How to use lambdas – and exactly why you would use them in certain situations
• Using functions and nested functions – optimize your programs to be more efficient, expressive, and easily maintainable
• The “collections” module – how “namedtuple”, “Counter”, and other classes can make your code shorter, more clear, and easier to maintain
• Implementing iterators, generators, and the “itertools” module – make your job––and others’––easier by understanding the most important protocol in Python
• Harnessing Python for consuming web services – automate the gathering of information from the Internet and use it in Python
• Storing and retrieving information with relational databases – discover how Python’s DB-API offers a consistent, database-neutral interface to these databases
• Using Python as a “glue” language – automate translating file formats, retrieving and publishing data with JSON, and executing external programs

Instructor

This course, like all others on LernerPython.com, is taught by Reuven Lerner.