Throughout this chapter, we will introduce Python scripting, collections, functions, exception-handling, and object-oriented programming. We will review how to create classes, objects, and Python's particularities to initialize objects, including the use of special attributes and methods. Also it will be introduce a methodology, tools, and development environments.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Programming and installing Python
• Data structures and Python collections
• Python functions and managing exceptions
• Object-Oriented Programming in Python
• The OMSTD methodology including how to manage modules, packages, dependencies, passing parameters, working with virtual environments, and the STB module for Python scripting
• The main development environments for script-development in Python
• Interacting and debugging with Python IDE