Chapter 3. Python - Basics

• Introduction to Python
  • Reading Materials for This Chapter
  • Fortran vs. Python
  • Running Python
  • Python 2 vs. Python 3?
• Overview on Python Programming
  • Interactive Python
  • Indentation: In Python indentation is everything!
  • Wrapping lines
  • Comments
  • Python data types:
  • Strings
  • Docstrings
  • Running Python scripts
  • Python objects
  • Declaring variables?
  • Lists
  • Copying objects
  • Mutable and Immutable objects
  • Iterators
  • range
  • enumerate
• Python data manipulations with operations
  • Type
  • Python keywords
  • Operators and operands
  • Data manipulations
• Python scripts and modules
  • Reloading modules
  • Importing modules
  • The Python Path
  • Other forms of import
  • An example study
• Python built-ins
  • Built-in functions
  • Built-in constants
  • Built-in types
  • An example study
• More examples on Python strings
  • Traversal
  • Concatenation (string addition)
  • Searching and counting
  • String methods
  • The in operator
  • String comparison
  • Mixed type comparison
• More examples on Python lists
  • Traversal, sort, sorted
  • Adding and deleting
• Dictionaries
  • Key:value pair
  • Dictionary as a set of counters
  • Dictionaries and lists
  • Dictionaries as memos
  • Global variables
  • An example study
• Tuples
  • Tuple assignments
  • Tuples as return values
  • Variable-length argument tuples
  • Lists and tuples, dictionaries and tuples
• Lambda functions