Introduction to python course

[DPeterK]

There is a set of things that we teach in every course that we run. These things don't directly relate to any of the specific SciTools courses; they are general Python things that are nevertheless useful to know.

They are:

• *args and **kwargs,
• list comprehensions,
• variable unpacking,
• __str__ and __repr__,
• naming conventions for classes, functions and methods, and
• probably a few other bits as well.

These could be added to a mini-course to be taught alongaside the other existing courses.