Advanced Python Programming for Web Application Developers

Overview
The course adopts a strong object oriented analysis and design approach, covering framework development and application of object patterns. In addition to in depth coverage of more advanced topics such as regular expression, network and multi-threaded programming and the implementation of asynchronous services, the course also covers topics directly relevant to the implementation of advanced web applications. These include database programming, XML processing and the use of Python XML parser libraries, and the implementation of web services in Python.

Course Contents
Overview of Python Overview of data structures, classes and object oriented Python programming Python multi-threaded programming

• Thread module
• Threading module

String and text processing with Python

• Sorting
• Formatting
• Encryption
• Compression
• Unicode
• Splitting and joining strings
• Pattern matching using regular expressions
  • Regular expression patterns
  • Processing lines with continuation characters
  • Identifying URLs and email addresses in text
  • Advanced regular expression extensions

Implementing parsers in Python

• Overview of parsing, parsers and grammars
• Overview of finite state machines and their implementation using Python
• Overview of Python parser libraries

Python network programming

• Overview of TCP/IP and client-server applications
• Using Python's network/socket modules
  • socket
  • asyncore
  • asynchat
  • select
  • SocketServer
• File transfer applications
• Email applications

Python web programming

• Python CGI programming
• Mod_python
• Using Python to generate HTML and XML pages
• Implementing simple HTTP servers using Python
• Overview of Web services
• Overview of Python based web services frameworks

Python database programming

• Overview of relational database concepts
• Overview of the Python database interface
• Principles of embedding SQL in Python
• Connecting to databases via ODBC
• Connecting to MySQL from Python
• Connecting to PostgreSQL from Python
• Implementing database driven web sites using Python

XML - Python programming

• Overview of XML
• DTDs
• XML Namespaces
• Validating vs. nonvalidating XML
• Parsing XML using regular expression
• Processing XML using SAX and DOM