Chapter 5. Python - IO, OS functionality, debugging, OOP

Google drive folder with Jupyter Notebooks used in class: Jupyter Notebooks from class

• Recap & Outlook
• Reading Materials
• Python input and output
  • Reading and writing files
  • Iterating over lines in a file
  • File modes
  • with statement
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise
• Interacting with the OS from Python
  • os module: directory and file manipulation
  • os.path: path manipulation
  • Running shell commands
  • glob: pattern matching on files
  • sys module: system-specific information
  • Exercise
• Exception handling and debugging in Python
  • Exceptions
  • Catching exceptions
  • Python debugging
• A short example of object-oriented programming (OOP) in Python
  • An example: Polynomial interpolation
  • Inheritance and Chebyshev interpolation
  • Exercises