Pythonic Programming

This lesson provides you with a deep dive into the various Python language features that you should be exploiting to write clean, concise, readable, and maintainable code - the Pythonic way!

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to write Pythonic code
• Understand Python-specific idioms
• Understand how to work with key collection data structures such as Tuples, Lists, Sets, and Dictionaries
• Understand how to work with Iterables and List, Set, and Dictionary Comprehensions
• Understand Lambda Functions, Generator Functions and Expressions and when and how to use them
• And finally, understand string formatters and formatting

Prerequisites

• A basic understanding of the Python programming language
• A basic understanding of software development
• A basic understanding of the software development life cycle

Intended Audience

• Software developers interested in learning how to write Python code in a Pythonic way
• Python junior level developers interested in advancing their Python skills 
• Anyone with an interest in Python and how to use Python to write concise and elegant scripts for general purpose tasks