8 WORKING WITH DATA IN PYTHON
The basics of Python are behind you, but there’s still a lot to learn. In this chapter, you’ll expand your programming skills and start to directly investigate datasets, including BlueLeaks and chat logs leaked from a pro-Putin ransomware gang after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
We’ll go over some more advanced Python topics, like how to use modules, how to traverse the filesystem, and how to create your own command line programs in Python. You’ll write programs that look through all of the files in a folder, including the hundreds of thousands of files in the BlueLeaks dataset, and learn to add arguments to your programs. You’ll also start working with a new type of variable in Python, the dictionary, which ...
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