Required reading

• 3. An Informal Introduction to Python
• 3.1. Using Python as a Calculator
• 3.1.1. Numbers
• 3.1.2. Strings
• 3.1.3. Lists
• 4.1. If Statements
• 4.2. For Statements
• 4.3. The range() Function
• 5.1. More on Lists
• 5.3. Tuples and Sequences
• 5.4. Sets
• 5.5. Dictionaries
• 5.6. Looping Techniques
• 5.7. More on Conditions
• 5.8. Comparing Sequences and Other Types
• 7.2. Reading and Writing Files
• 7.2.1. Methods of File Objects
• 8. Errors and Exceptions
• 8.4. The try statement
• 8.5. The with statement
• Exception hierarchy
• Exercise: Unix Commands
• HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package
• Installations
• Learning Objectives
• Mandatory Assignment: Required reading Exercise
• Open
• Python String Formatting Best Practices
• Set Types — set, frozenset
• Sorting HOW TO
• String Methods
• Text Sequence Type — str
• The Markdown syntax
• Unix Commands
• File object
• Os — Miscellaneous operating system interfaces
• Subprocess — Subprocess management
• Urllib — URL handling modules
• Urllib.request — Extensible library for opening URLs