7 minutes to Learn Python Programming Right Now

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Hi , Its a quick tutorial and I have only 7 minutes of your precious time So lets start without any further ado.

Installing Python :

• If you are on Linux or Mac Machine Python is already installed on your system .
• On Windows system Simply to the https://www.python.org/downloads/ and download the version 2.7.x where x can be anything(My case 9) , see the image below for further reference.
•     Just add Python to you Path on windows using this Link

Hello World Saga :

print("Hello World")

   

Data Type , Strings with Syntax

Basic syntax is same any other programming language like Java , The data structures available in python are lists, tuples and dictionaries. Sets module provides classes for constructing and manipulating unordered collections of unique elements. Common uses include removing duplicates from a sequence.

• Lists are like one-dimensional arrays (but you can also have lists of other lists). Tuples are immutable one-dimensional arrays
• Dictionaries are associative arrays (a.k.a. hash tables)
• Strings  – Strings are immutable in python , Below image shows how you can assign a variable with String value and Concatenate it with other data types like Int , Boolean etc.

Loops

 

## This is how you take a range in python
myrange = range(10)
print(myrange)

for item in myrange:
if item in (1,3,5,7,9): ## if item % 2 == 0 for other logic
print("Old Number")
else:
print("Even Number")

item = 1
while item < 10:
print(myrange[item])
item = item+1

   

[code] Output : range(0, 10) Even Number Old Number Even Number Old Number Even Number Old Number Even Number Old Number Even Number Old Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [/code]

Functions and Claases

[python]

class myClass:
def myFunction(self):
print("Hi I am Function")

def myFunctionWithReturn(self):
myText = "How are you"
return myText

def myFucntionWithArguments(self,number1,number2):
return number1+number2

if __name__== "__main__":
myObj = myClass() ## Creating Object
myObj.myFunction()
myValue = myObj.myFucntionWithArguments(1,2)
print(myValue)

 

 Hi I am Function 3

 

Exceptions

 

def some_function():
try:
# Division by zero raises an exception
10 / 0
except ZeroDivisionError:
print "Oops, invalid."
else:
# Exception didn't occur, we're good.
pass
finally:
# This is executed after the code block is run
# and all exceptions have been handled, even
# if a new exception is raised while handling.
print "We're done with that."

>>> some_function() Oops, invalid. We’re done with that.  

File I/O

f =open("myFile.txt","w")
>>> f.readline()

'This is the first line of the file.n'
or

for line in f:
print line,

    More IO operations here

I hope I was able to give you a quick glimpse of Python in 7 minutes. Please leave comments if you believe there is something that could be improved or added or if there is anything else you would like to see.