Python Intro
3 days
Overview
Be able to create python 3 programs which
- Parse & process text
- Interact with the user and the local system
Create well-structured, reusable and easy-to-maintain programs by
- Being aware of python coding standards and idioms
- Including automated testing in your programs
- Adopting pythonic project structure
Environment
- Python 3 on Windows, Linux or mac
- A working python installation
Audience
Developers, QA & Devops with previous programming experience
Course Content
Setting up Python
- Packaging and Isolation using pip & virtualenv
- Editing python, Visual Studio Code, pylint
- Debugging using VSC
- Coding style and PEP-8
- Documenting python code using pydoc and doctest
Writing Tests
- Automating tests and the test pyramid
- Writing our first test
- The Setup / Execute / Verify / Teardown pattern
- Measuring tests coverage
Using pytest
- pytest vs unittest
- Test discovery & Structuring unit tests
- Selective running of test using marks
- Testing exceptions
- Python project structure
