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This course covers Advanced-level Python techniques.

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Use some advanced Python environments
• Use some common Python modules
• Do graphics programming with Python
• Network with Python
• Write multi-threaded Python programs
• Extend Python with C
• Embed Python into another language
• Learn the new things to come in Python 3000

This course is aimed at experienced Python programmers who want to get more out of the language, and use some more of its advanced features.

Substantial recent experience with Python as covered in our Intermediate Python course is required.

Advanced Python

Review of intermediate level Python
More advanced data structures

Advanced environments

Using IDEs such as Komodo, PyDev, Wingware etc
Other tools

Advanced language techniques

Introspection
Evaluating text as code
Iterators and generators
Attributes

Useful modules

Tour of some useful modules
Win32 modules
Creating your own modules
Creating your own packages
The cheese shop

Networking with Python

How to access the World Wide Web from Python
How to pass data using basic sockets
Creating a web server using Python

Processes and Threads

Process basics and process tricks
Forking processes
Writing multi-threaded programs in Python

Graphics programming in Python

2D images
Games programming

Extending and embedding Python

Other Python implementations
How to extend Python with C and other languages
How to embed the Python interpreter into other language programs

What's next - Python 3000

An introduction to Python 3000

Python Performance and Python Best Practices

Python Performance
Python Best Practices

Introduction to Python (2 days)
Intermediate Python (3 days)