%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Tutorial slides on Python. % % Author: Prabhu Ramachandran % Copyright (c) 2005-2009, 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:\\Advanced Python data structures, Functions and Debugging} \author[FOSSEE Team] {Asokan Pichai\\Prabhu Ramachandran} \institute[IIT Bombay] {Department of Aerospace Engineering\\IIT Bombay} \date[] {10, October 2009\\Day 1, Session 4} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\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} } % 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} \titlepage \end{frame} \section{Advanced Data structures, Functions and Debugging} \subsection{Dictionary} \begin{frame}{Dictionary} \begin{itemize} \item lists and tuples index: 0 \ldots n \item dictionaries index using strings \item \typ{ d = \{ ``Hitchhiker's guide'' : 42, ``Terminator'' : ``I'll be back''\}} \item \typ{d[``Terminator'']\\``I'll be back''} \item aka associative array, key-value pair, hashmap, hashtable \ldots \item what can be keys? \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Dictionary \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} \inctime{5} \end{frame} \begin{frame} {Problem Set 6.1} \begin{description} \item[6.1.1] 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[6.1.2] Count word frequencies in a file. \item[6.1.3] Find the most used Python keywords in your Python code (import keyword). \end{description} \inctime{10} \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 set([1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8]) >>> f10&p10 set([2, 3, 5]) >>> f10-p10 set([8, 1]) \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Set} \begin{lstlisting} >>> p10-f10, f10^p10 set([7]), set([1, 7, 8]) >>> set([2,3]) < p10 True >>> set([2,3]) <= p10 True >>> 2 in p10 True >>> 4 in p10 False >>> len(f10) 5 \end{lstlisting} \inctime{5} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{Problem set 6.2} \begin{description} \item[6.2.1] Given a dictionary of the names of students and their marks, identify how many duplicate marks are there? and what are these? \item[6.2.2] 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{10} \end{frame} \subsection{Functions Reloaded!} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Advanced functions} \begin{itemize} \item default args \item var args \item keyword args \item scope \item \typ{global} \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Functions: default arguments} \small \begin{lstlisting} def ask_ok(prompt, 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 print complaint ask_ok('?') ask_ok('?', '[Y/N]') \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Functions: keyword arguments} \small \begin{lstlisting} def ask_ok(prompt, 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 print complaint ask_ok(prompt='?') ask_ok(prompt='?', complaint='[y/n]') ask_ok(complaint='[y/n]', prompt='?') \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 \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{List Comprehensions} Lets say we want to squares of all the numbers from 1 to 100 \begin{lstlisting} squares = [] for i in range(1, 100): squares.append(i * i) \end{lstlisting} \begin{lstlisting} # list comprehension squares = [i*i for i in range(1, 100)] \end{lstlisting} Which is more readable? \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{List Comprehensions} What if you had a more complex function? Lets say we want squares of numbers from 1 to 100 ending in 1, 2, 5, 7 only \begin{lstlisting} squares = [] for i in range(1, 100): if i % 10 in [1, 2, 5, 7]: squares.append(i * i) \end{lstlisting} \begin{lstlisting} # list comprehension squares = [i*i for i in range(1, 100) if i % 10 in [1, 2, 5, 7]] \end{lstlisting} Which is more readable? \inctime{15} \end{frame} \subsection{Debugging} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Errors} \begin{lstlisting} >>> while True print 'Hello world' \end{lstlisting} \pause \begin{lstlisting} File "", line 1, in ? while True print 'Hello world' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Exceptions} \begin{lstlisting} >>> print spam \end{lstlisting} \pause \begin{lstlisting} Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'spam' is not defined \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Exceptions} \begin{lstlisting} >>> 1 / 0 \end{lstlisting} \pause \begin{lstlisting} Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero \end{lstlisting} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Debugging effectively} \begin{itemize} \item \kwrd{print} based strategy \item Process: Hypothesis, test, refine, rinse-repeat \end{itemize} \inctime{15} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Debugging effectively} \begin{itemize} \item Using \typ{\%debug} and \typ{\%pdb} in IPython \end{itemize} \inctime{15} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Debugging: Exercise} \inctime{10} \end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{What did we learn?} \begin{itemize} \item Creating and using Dictionaries \item Creating and using Sets \item Advances Functions: default arguments, keyword arguments \item Functional Programming, list comprehensions \item Errors and Exceptions in Python \item Debugging: How to use pdb, \%pdb and \%debug in IPython \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document}