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Wed 28 Nov 2012
14:15 - 17:00

Venue: Phoenix Teaching Room

Provided by: University Computing Service


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Python: Operating System Access
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Wed 28 Nov 2012

Description

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This course will introduce methods in Python for accessing the operating system environment (e.g. standard input, standard output, environment variables, etc). The course will cover topics such as command-line parsing in more detail than the "Python Introduction for Absolute Beginners" or "Python Introduction for Programmers".

Prerequisites
  • Prior attendance at either the "Python Introduction for Absolute Beginners" or "Python Introduction for Programmers" courses or equivalent experience.
  • Those attending should be able to use a plain text editor (e.g. emacs, gedit, pico, vi) on a Unix system as might be obtained from the Emacs or Vi introductory courses.
Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Wed 28 Nov 2012   14:15 - 17:00 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room R.J. Dowling
Topics covered
  • Obtaining data from the keyboard/standard input
  • Parsing the command-line
  • Accessing environment variables
Format

Presentation/demonstration with practicals.

System requirements

Python v. 3 on PWF Linux

Notes
  • This course is unsuitable for those who have no experience of Python.
  • As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific programming.
  • Those attending this course may also be interested in the "Python Further Topics" course.
Duration

One half day session

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