Understand the basic techniques used to create scripts for automating system administration tasks. Design, code, test Pythons application using Python doc tests and unit testing tools. Demonstrate the use of Python to prototype applications. Demonstrate the use of regular expressions in processing text. Demonstrate the use of Python is developing applications using networking and databases.

Python is a popular, general-purpose, multi-paradigm, open-source, scripting language. It is designed to emphasize code readability – has a clean syntax with high level data types. It is suited for interactive work and quick prototyping, while being powerful enough to write large applications in. Python has a large number of available and well-written modules for everything from abstract syntax trees to ZIP file manipulation. Its ecosystem features an extensive set of tools including a JIT compiler.