Python fundamentals (colab notebook)

Proceedings from (2025-11-08/09) lectures about Python:

(accessible via link since Google Colab does not allow posting notebooks in an iframe)

Topics mentioned

• Variables
  • declaring variables
  • string interpolation
  • multi-lined strings
  • escaped characters
  • variable name restrictions
  • variable indexing
  • concatenation
• Operators
  • arithmetic
  • equality and inequality
  • logical operators
  • value swapping
• Data structures
  • lists
  • tuples
  • dictionaries
  • sets
• Immutability and mutability
• Branches
  • if-else
  • if-elif-else
• Iteration
  • for (item) in (list) loop
  • for (character) in (string) loop
  • for (item) in (dictionary) loop
  • range keyword
  • while loop
  • list comprehensions
• Functions
  • functions without parameters
  • functions with parameters
  • lambda functions
  • higher order functions
• File handling
  • reading from a file
  • writing to a file
  • adding to a file
• Error handling
  • try + except + finally
• Iterators
  • generators
  • iterabilization
• Decorators
• Regular expressions (regex)
  • finding
  • finding and replacing
  • fuzzy finding and replacing
  • finding strings that begin/end with a character
  • finding either one substring or another
  • removing punctuation
• User input