The Python Team

Episode 1

Stop Copying That Function

PCEP 4.1-4.2: decomposition, positional and keyword arguments, return and None, default arguments, local vs global scope, and simple recursion.

Episode 2

The Program Crashed, Politely

PCEP 4.3-4.4 and PCAP 2.1-2.2: the exception hierarchy, matching except clauses, propagation, raise and assert, and defining a small custom exception.

Episode 3

Someone Already Built It

PCAP 1.1-1.5: import forms, qualified names, module search path, `__name__` / `if __name__ == '__main__'`, selected `math` / `random` / `platform` calls, and building your own package.

Episode 4

Emoji Are Not Always One Thing

PCAP 3.1-3.3: character encoding and Unicode, code points, `ord` / `chr`, string operations and comparison, and string methods.

Episode 5

Meet the Creator Object

PCAP 4.1-4.3 and 4.6: defining classes, instances vs the class, attributes and methods, `self`, `__init__`, instance state vs class state, and name mangling.

Episode 6

The Inheritance Plot Twist

PCAP 4.4-4.5: introspection (isinstance / issubclass / hasattr), inheritance, method overriding, polymorphism, `super()`, and choosing inheritance vs composition.

Episode 7

The Export That Ate Memory

PCAP 5.1-5.5: list/dict comprehensions, lambdas, map/filter, closures and late binding, generators and lazy evaluation, and text I/O concepts (modes, encoding, cleanup, errors).

Episode 8

The Vector and the Table

NumPy ndarray creation, vectorization, and array broadcasting.

Episode 9

Python Promotion Review

All PCAP domains, plus the programme bridges: HTTP status handling, JSON shape validation, and parameterised SQL. This is a consolidation and retrieval episode.