Programming in Python 3

Course guarantor:

Miroslav Virius

Lecturer:

Jakub Klinkovský

Tutor:

Jakub Klinkovský

Supervisor:

Department of Software Engineering

Synopsis:

This advanced course is intended for students who have basic experience with programming in Python and using its libraries. It introduces students to advanced concepts of the Python language and modules they are based on.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Overall conception of the Python language, virtual environments

2. Details on multiple inheritance

3. Processing exception tracebacks

4. Annotations in advanced cases

5. Protocols and static duck typing

6. Decorators and aspect-oriented programming

7. Advanced iterators and generators, yield-expressions

8. Metaclasses and modification of class objects

9. Modification of access to attributes

10. Dunders and operator overloading

11. Descriptors

12. Slots and implementation hiding

13. Asynchronous operations and coroutines

14. Threads

15. Parallelism via multiprocessing

16. Communication with external modules in C and C++ languages

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Recommended literature:

[1] R. Pecinovský, Python 3.14 Podrobná příručka algoritmických konstrukcí jazyka. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2025, ISBN 978-80-271-6061-7.

[2] R. Pecinovský, Python 3.14 Podrobná příručka objektových konstrukcí jazyka. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2025, ISBN 978-80-271-6062-4.

[3] A. Shaw, CPython Internals: Your Guide to the Python 3 Interpreter. Real Python 2021. ISBN 9781775093343.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Quantum Technologies (elective course)
• Physical Engineering - Solid State Engineering (elective course)