Python Scripting Certification Training

Module 1: Python Scripting Foundations

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: Script vs. module, shebang and execution permissions, virtual environments

• Hands-on: Write and execute your first “hello world” script and package it as a module

Module 2: File & Directory Automation

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: os and pathlib for traversal, shutil for copy/move, glob patterns

• Hands-on: Build a script to organize files by extension into folders

Module 3: Data Parsing & Transformation

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: CSV reader/writer, JSON serialization, XML parsing with ElementTree

• Hands-on: Aggregate and transform a set of CSV files into a consolidated JSON report

Module 4: Web Interaction & APIs

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: requests for HTTP, error handling, scraping with BeautifulSoup

• Hands-on: Fetch data from a public REST API and parse HTML tables from a webpage

Module 5: Scheduling & Automation Workflows

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: Cron jobs vs. Windows Task Scheduler, schedule and APScheduler libraries

• Hands-on: Create a daily data-backup script triggered automatically at a set time

Module 6: Packaging & Distribution

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: setup.py and pyproject.toml, entry points, creating executables with PyInstaller

• Hands-on: Package your automation into a command-line tool installable via pip

Module 7: Debugging & Logging

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: logging module configuration, exception tracing, interactive debugging with pdb

• Hands-on: Enhance an existing script with robust logging and step-through debugging

Module 8: Capstone Project – End-to-End Automator

⏳ 1 week

• Topics: Project scoping, modular script architecture, unit testing basics

• Hands-on: Build, test, and deploy a complete automation pipeline—for example, an ETL script that ingests, transforms, and reports on batch data

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