%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Tutorial slides on Python. % % Author: Prabhu Ramachandran % Copyright (c) 2005-2008, Prabhu Ramachandran %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentclass[14pt,compress]{beamer} %\documentclass[draft]{beamer} %\documentclass[compress,handout]{beamer} %\usepackage{pgfpages} %\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm] % Modified from: generic-ornate-15min-45min.de.tex \mode { \usetheme{Warsaw} \useoutertheme{split} \setbeamercovered{transparent} } \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} %\usepackage{times} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Taken from Fernando's slides. \usepackage{ae,aecompl} \usepackage{mathpazo,courier,euler} \usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet} \definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.5,0} \usepackage{listings} \lstset{language=Python, basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries, commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape, stringstyle=\color{darkgreen}, showstringspaces=false, keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Macros \setbeamercolor{emphbar}{bg=blue!20, fg=black} \newcommand{\emphbar}[1] {\begin{beamercolorbox}[rounded=true]{emphbar} {#1} \end{beamercolorbox} } \newcounter{time} \setcounter{time}{0} \newcommand{\inctime}[1]{\addtocounter{time}{#1}{\tiny \thetime\ m}} \newcommand{\typ}[1]{\texttt{#1}} \newcommand{\kwrd}[1]{ \texttt{\textbf{\color{blue}{#1}}} } %%% This is from Fernando's setup. % \usepackage{color} % \definecolor{orange}{cmyk}{0,0.4,0.8,0.2} % % Use and configure listings package for nicely formatted code % \usepackage{listings} % \lstset{ % language=Python, % basicstyle=\small\ttfamily, % commentstyle=\ttfamily\color{blue}, % stringstyle=\ttfamily\color{orange}, % showstringspaces=false, % breaklines=true, % postbreak = \space\dots % } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Title page \title[Basic Python]{Python,\\a great programming toolkit:\\ numerics and plotting} \author[Asokan \& Prabhu] {Asokan Pichai\\Prabhu Ramachandran} \institute[IIT Bombay] {Department of Aerospace Engineering\\IIT Bombay} \date[] {26, July 2009} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.75cm]{iitmlogo}{iitmlogo} %\logo{\pgfuseimage{iitmlogo}} %% Delete this, if you do not want the table of contents to pop up at %% the beginning of each subsection: \AtBeginSubsection[] { \begin{frame} \frametitle{Outline} \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection] \end{frame} } \AtBeginSection[] { \begin{frame} \frametitle{Outline} \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection] \end{frame} } % If you wish to uncover everything in a step-wise fashion, uncomment % the following command: %\beamerdefaultoverlayspecification{<+->} %\includeonlyframes{current,current1,current2,current3,current4,current5,current6} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % DOCUMENT STARTS \begin{document} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Outline} \tableofcontents \end{frame} \section{Pythonicity} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{The Zen of Python} Try this! \begin{lstlisting} >>> import this \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame} {Style Guide} Read PEP8 \url{http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/} \inctime{10} \end{frame} \section{More Python Machinery} \subsection{Objects} \begin{frame}{Objects in Python} \begin{itemize} \item What is an Object? (Types and classes) \item identity \item type \item method \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Why are they useful?} \small \begin{lstlisting} for element in (1, 2, 3): print element for key in {'one':1, 'two':2}: print key for char in "123": print char for line in open("myfile.txt"): print line for line in urllib2.urlopen('http://site.com'): print line \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{And the winner is \ldots OBJECTS!} All objects providing a similar inteface can be used the same way.\\ Functions (and others) are first-class objects. Can be passed to and returned from functions. \inctime{10} \end{frame} \subsection{Dictionary} \begin{frame}{Dictionary} \begin{itemize} \item aka associative arrays, key-value pairs, hashmaps, hashtables \ldots \item \typ{ d = \{ ``Hitchhiker's guide'' : 42, ``Terminator'' : ``I'll be back''\}} \item lists and tuples index: 0 \ldots n \item dictionaries index using strings \item aka key-value pairs \item what can be keys? \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Dict \ldots } \begin{itemize} \item \alert{Unordered} \begin{block}{Standard usage} for key in dict:\\ dict[key] \# => value \end{block} \item \typ{d.keys()} returns a list \item can we have duplicate keys? \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame} {Problem Set 2.1} \begin{description} \item[2.1.1] You are given date strings of the form ``29, Jul 2009'', or ``4 January 2008''. In other words a number a string and another number, with a comma sometimes separating the items.Write a function that takes such a string and returns a tuple (yyyy, mm, dd) where all three elements are ints. \item[2.1.2] Count word frequencies in a file. \item[2.1.3] Find the most used Python keywords in your Python code (import keyword). \end{description} \inctime{20} \end{frame} \subsection{Set} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Set} \begin{itemize} \item Simplest container, mutable \item No ordering, no duplicates \item usual suspects: union, intersection, subset \ldots \item >, >=, <, <=, in, \ldots \end{itemize} \begin{lstlisting} f10 = set([1,2,3,5,8]) p10 = set([2,3,5,7]) f10|p10, f10&p10 f10-p10, p10-f10, f10^p10 set([2,3]) < p10, set([2,3]) <= p10 2 in p10, 4 in p10 len(f10) \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Problem set 2.2} \begin{description} \item[2.2.1] Given a dictionary of the names of students and their marks, identify how many duplicate marks are there? and what are these? \item[2.2.2] Given a string of the form ``4-7, 9, 12, 15'' find the numbers missing in this list for a given range. \end{description} \inctime{15} \end{frame} \subsection{Functions Reloaded!} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Advanced functions} \begin{itemize} \item default args \item varargs \item keyword args \item scope \item \typ{global} \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Functions: default arguments} \begin{lstlisting} def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint='Yes or no!'): while True: ok = raw_input(prompt) if ok in ('y', 'ye', 'yes'): return True if ok in ('n', 'no', 'nop', 'nope'): return False retries = retries - 1 if retries < 0: raise IOError, 'bad user' print complaint \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Functions: keyword arguments} \small \begin{lstlisting} def parrot(voltage, state='a stiff', action='voom', type='Royal Blue'): print "-- This parrot wouldn't", action, print "if you supply", voltage, "Volts." print "-- Lovely plumage, the", type print "-- It's", state, "!" parrot(1000) parrot(action = 'VOOOOOM', voltage = 1000000) parrot('a thousand', state = 'pushing up the daisies') parrot('a million', 'bereft of life', 'jump') \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Functions: arbitrary argument lists} \begin{itemize} \item Arbitrary number of arguments using \verb+*args+ or \verb+*whatever+ \item Keyword arguments using \verb+**kw+ \item Given a tuple/dict how do you call a function? \begin{itemize} \item Using argument unpacking \item For positional arguments: \verb+foo(*[5, 10])+ \item For keyword args: \verb+foo(**{'a':5, 'b':10})+ \end{itemize} \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \begin{lstlisting} def foo(a=10, b=100): print a, b def func(*args, **keyword): print args, keyword # Unpacking: args = [5, 10] foo(*args) kw = {'a':5, 'b':10} foo(**kw) \end{lstlisting} \inctime{15} \end{frame} \subsection{Functional programming} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Functional programming} What is the basic idea?\\ Why is it interesting?\\ \typ{map, reduce, filter}\\ list comprehension\\ generators \inctime{10} \end{frame} \end{document} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%