Python Programming with Red Hat

Overview

Python programming for beginners

Python is a popular programming language used by system administrators, data scientists, and developers to create web applications, custom Red Hat Ansible Automation modules, perform statistical analysis, and train AI/ML models. This course introduces the Python language and teaches fundamental concepts like control flow, loops, data structures, functions, file I/O, regular expressions, parsing JSON, and debugging. This course is based on Python 3 and RHEL 9.0.
Following course completion, hands-on lab access will remain available for up to 45 days for any live course that includes a virtual environment.

Technology considerations

Internet access is required.
A cloud-based RHEL workstation will be provided. Optionally, students can install Python on their own workstation and run lab exercises locally, however Red Hat will not troubleshoot local environment issues.

Objectives

• Basics of Python syntax, functions and data types
• How to debug Python scripts using the Python debugger (pdb)
• Use Python data structures like dictionaries, sets, tuples and lists to handle compound data
• Learn Object-oriented programming in Python and Exception Handling
• How to read and write files in Python and parse JSON data
• Use powerful regular expressions in Python to manipulate text
• How to effectively structure large Python programs using modules and namespaces
• How to use third-party libraries using the pip CLI tool.