Summary

This chapter continued from where we left off in previous chapter, and helped us build a solid Python foundation for later chapters. We covered advanced data types and object-oriented programming, developed our first scripts, and dived into traceback messages. At this point, you should start to become comfortable with Python, though repeat these two chapters and manually type out the code to help strengthen your comfort level as needed. We highly recommend to practice and experiment by either testing out ideas in the interactive prompt or modifying the scripts we developed. The code for this project can be downloaded from GitHub or Packt, as described in the Preface.

As we move away from theory and look into the core part of this book, we will start with simple scripts and work toward increasingly more complicated programs. This should allow a natural development of understanding programming and skills. In the next chapter, you will learn how to parse the setupapi.dev.log file on Windows systems to identify USB installation times.