• Working with functions: What is a function? characteristics of a function, Determine appropriate function names; Documenting functions; Using * and ** operators.
• Accessing modules and module security: Locations to import modules; Updating a compiled Python file; Function-level security..
• Working with Python classes: What is a class? How do you create a class? The __init__() method; Creating attributes for the class; Instantiating the class; Creating methods; Introducing abstraction and inheritance.
• Adding logging functionality: Create a simple text file for logging; Introducing the logging module; Use the logging.basicConfig() function to create robust log files; Learn how to create a custom logger object; Accessing the logger object from multiple code modules; Capturing run-time errors in log files.
• Creating graphical user interfaces: What GUI toolkits exist for Python; Creating a tkinter form; tkinter widgets; Displaying widgets on forms; Resizing the form; Working with callbacks.

This course is aimed at those who have Python experience. You will be expected to know how to write Python scripts and will have attended the following course or have the equivalent experience: Getting Started with the Python Scripting Language.

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“Pace of course allowed me to try some of the learning on our own systems immediately after undertaking which provided great benefits” Paul, Rural Payments Agency