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Python Programming with Raspberry Pi

You're reading from   Python Programming with Raspberry Pi Build small yet powerful robots and automation systems with Raspberry Pi Zero

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467577
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sai Yamanoor Sai Yamanoor
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Sai Yamanoor is an embedded systems engineer working for a private startup school in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he builds devices that help students achieve their full potential. He completed his undergraduate work in mechatronics engineering from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India and his graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. His interests, deeply rooted in DIY and open software and hardware cultures, include developing gadgets and apps that improve the quality of life, Internet of Things, crowdfunding, education, and new technologies. In his spare time, he plays with various devices and architectures, such as the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Galileo, Android devices and others. Sai has earlier published a book titled Raspberry Pi Mechatronics Projects.
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Srihari Yamanoor is a mechanical engineer, working on medical devices, sustainability, and robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India and graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. He is certified in SolidWorks, simulation, sustainable design, PDM as well as in quality and reliability engineering and auditing. His has a wide range of interests, from DIY, crowdfunding, AI, travelling, photography to gardening and ecology.
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Python and the Raspberry Pi Zero 2. Arithmetic Operations, Loops, and Blinky Lights FREE CHAPTER 3. Conditional Statements, Functions, and Lists 4. Communication Interfaces 5. Data Types and Object-Oriented Programming in Python 6. File I/O and Python Utilities 7. Requests and Web Frameworks 8. Awesome Things You Could Develop Using Python 9. Lets Build a Robot! 10. Home Automation Using the Raspberry Pi Zero 11. Tips and Tricks

File I/O and Python Utilities

In this chapter, we are going to discuss file I/O, that is reading, writing and appending to file in detail. We are also going to discuss Python utilities that enable manipulating files and interacting with the operating system. Each topic has a different level of complexity that we will discuss using an example. Let's get started!

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Sai Yamanoor is an embedded systems engineer working for a private startup school in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he builds devices that help students achieve their full potential. He completed his undergraduate work in mechatronics engineering from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India and his graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. His interests, deeply rooted in DIY and open software and hardware cultures, include developing gadgets and apps that improve the quality of life, Internet of Things, crowdfunding, education, and new technologies. In his spare time, he plays with various devices and architectures, such as the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Galileo, Android devices and others. Sai has earlier published a book titled Raspberry Pi Mechatronics Projects.
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Srihari Yamanoor is a mechanical engineer, working on medical devices, sustainability, and robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India and graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. He is certified in SolidWorks, simulation, sustainable design, PDM as well as in quality and reliability engineering and auditing. His has a wide range of interests, from DIY, crowdfunding, AI, travelling, photography to gardening and ecology.
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