Essential Python for Corpus Linguistics

I. Introduction II. Getting Started Downloading and Installing Python Checking that it Works Using Python as a Calculator String Lists Variables and Assignment Statements Counting Lines and Words Exercises III. More on Sequences Tuples Operations on Sequences List Operations String Operations IV. Tests and Control Equality comparison and membership tests The IF statement The FOR statement Example programs Exercises V. Dictionaries and Functions Dictionaries Defining Functions Example programs Exercises VI. Additional Python Topics Modules Custom Sorting List Comprehensions String formatting or interpolation File input and output Unicode Example Programs Exercises VII. Regular Expressions Applications of Regular Expressions Using regular expressions in Python Using regular expression objects Example: Reading CHAT files Homework VIII. Reading XML files Using the DOM to search a treebank Using the CHILDES XML data