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A collection of basic Python examples designed to get a student up and running on the language.

More tutorials and documentation:

• The official Python docs: https://www.python.org/doc/
• LearnPython.org: http://www.learnpython.org/

After you've mastered these examples, also check out:

• More Python snippets I find handy: https://github.com/anthonydb/python-snippets
• Catch the Cat: A text-based game (introduces objects and advanced coding): https://github.com/anthonydb/catch-the-cat
• Tom Meagher's repo for the 2014 NICAR Python mini-bootcamp: https://github.com/tommeagher/pycar14

• Integers
• Decimals
• Strings
• Lists
• Tuples
• Dictionaries

• Slicing
• Mods

• if ... then ... else
• while
• for

• Opening, reading from and writing to files
• Bonus: Word frequency counter

• Using Requests and BeautifulSoup to fetch and parse a web page

• Parsing text with regular expessions

• Applying regular expressions to scraping nuclear reactor data

• Creating functions

• Using the csvkit Python library to handle CSV files