Gain insights into Python by leveraging your PowerShell knowledge. Delve into syntax, semantics, and core concepts of Python, making learning efficient through associative learning techniques.

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PowerShell is a go-to scripting language for almost ANYTHING! Now, if you’re hoping to learn Python, then you’re in the right place. As you start this course, you’ll begin to notice that there are a lot of patterns and concepts shared between the two languages. 

Thus during this course, you will easily be able to relate new Python concepts to the concepts you already know in PowerShell, a learning style called Associative Learning. 

This PowerShell Scripting guide to Python is designed to make you familiar with syntax, semantics, and core concepts of the Python language. And by using concepts you already know in PowerShell, you’ll be able to learn Python fast and effectively in a way that sticks with you for a longer period of time.

Learning Python through PowerShell Concepts

# Introduction

Exchange of information into and out of programs is a requirement for most programming and scripting languages worldwide. The most common approach for this information exchange is through text files. One of the most popular formats for exchanging such data is the CSV format.
# What is CSV?

**CSV** is short for **Comma-Separated Values**, which is tabular data that has been saved as plaintext data separated by commas (`,`) or any other delimiter. For example, we have data in the following table that has header and data elements. This data can be converted into CSV data where each row of a table is a new line and has data separated with a comma.

Tabular Data:

|Column1|Column2|Column3|
|--|--|--|
|Data1|Data2|Data3|
|Data1|Data2|Data3|

CSV Data:

```CSV
Column1,Column2,Column3
Data1,Data2,Data3
Data1,Data2,Data3
```

# Reading a CSV File

Let’s take a look at how to read CSV files.
## Using PowerShell cmdlet `Import-CSV`
Reading CSV data from a file is fairly easy in PowerShell. All we need to do is use the `Import-CSV` cmdlet with a valid file path. PowerShell will read the CSV file and convert it to PowerShell objects and return objects on our console. Let’s suppose we have the following CSV data saved as filename `Service.csv`.

```CSV
"Name","Status"
"WinDefend","Stopped"
"WinHttpAutoProxySvc","Running"
"Winmgmt","Running"
"WinRM","Running"
```

To read or parse the CSV formatted files into PowerShell objects, run `Import-CSV <File Name>`.

```PowerShell
Import-Csv C:\Temp\Service.csv 
```




Learn what a CSV file is and how to read it in Powershell and Python.

Introduction

Basics

Object Introspection

Data Types and Its Manipulation

Data Structures

Conditional Statements

Loops

Functions

Handling Json, Xml, and Csv

Error Handling and Builtin Functions

Builtin Functions

Appendix

Conclusion

CSV File

Introduction

What is CSV?