Interactive Session: Start Python Shell * Comments * Typeless v = 1.2 type(v) v = "hi" type(v) * Case Senssetive myvar = 10 myvar Myvar Myvar = 2 * Whitespaces for i in range(10): print i print bye for i in range(10): print i print bye ==== Variables === a = 10 b = "hi" a + b = 2 # NOT 2a = "Hi # NOT _hi = "hi" YAY thisIsMyVariable = "hi" this_is_my_variable = "hi" === Operators === a = "hi" a + a a*10 a = 2 a + a a + 10 === Data Type ==== q = True if (2 > 0) == q: print "true" w = false q == 1 q == 0 w == 0 === Numbers === Integers Float q = 10 # Integer w = 20.2 Float 20 / 7 >> 2 # round 20 / 7.0 # Works great hexadecimals === Strings === q = 'Hello what a lovely day' q[0] # 1-2-3 q[4:10] #Selection q[:10] # Start from 0 q[-1] # 1-2-3 q[1:2] len(q) q.find("q") q.find("y") q.rfind("y") "lovely" in q q.upper() q.lower() "hello" in q >> ERR "hello" in q.lower() >>True for i in q: print i q.split() q.title() === Lists === w = q.split() len(w) for i in w: print i w[0] w[0::2] #GoBack " ".join(w) q.title()[-3:] q.title()[-3:].upper() ===python tuples=== w = [1,2,3,4] # list e = (1,2,3,4) 3 Tuple w[0] = 10 #change value of list w e[0] = 10 # X w.append(6) w e.append(6) #Tuple does not work #Cool function dir(q) help(q.title) === Dictionary or Hashmaps === can be though as a lit r = {"name":"Hashim', "lastname":"Thaci", "age":45} r r['age'] r["name"] r['name'].upper() r.keys() r.values()

1. Flying with Python
By Ardian Haxha
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2. Flying with Python
Would it be cool if there was a simple programming language
Had a huge community
Free modules and recipes

3. Flying with Python

4. Top 10 Reasons Why Python Rocks
1. Simple, easy to read syntax
2. Automatic modules namespaces
3. Object oriented
4. Huge community with great support
5. Modules for pretty much everything you might need to do
6. 99 % cross platform
7. Interactive shell
8. Easy to embed and extend
9. Supported by Maya, Houdini, XSI, Blender, Digital Fusion etc
10. Open Source

5. First Step
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Download Python: Python.org (Linux, OS X, Windows)
Activestate.com (Windows)
Text editor (Emacs, Gedit, Notepad ++, Sublime Text etc)

6. Python Syntax
Python is case sensitive
Python is type-less
Whitespace matters
# is used for comments

7. Lets get interactive
Windows users:
Start > cmd > python
Start and search python
Linux and Mac users:
Have it installed open terminal and type python