A basic Python syllabus typically covers the fundamental concepts necessary to begin programming in Python. This includes:

1. Introduction to Python:

• What is Python?
• Setting up the development environment (installing Python, choosing an IDE/editor).
• Basic syntax, comments, and indentation.

2. Variables and Data Types:

• Declaring and using variables.
• Understanding common data types: integers, floats, strings, booleans.
• Type conversions.

3. Operators:

• Arithmetic, comparison, assignment, logical, identity, and membership operators.

4. Control Flow:

• Conditional statements: if, elif, else.
• Looping constructs: for loops (with range), while loops.
• break and continue statements.

5. Data Structures:

• Strings: String manipulation methods, indexing, slicing.
• Lists: Creating, accessing, modifying lists, list methods.
• Tuples: Creating, accessing, and understanding immutability.
• Dictionaries: Creating, accessing, and modifying key-value pairs.
• Sets: Basic set operations.

6. Functions: Defining and calling user-defined functions, Function parameters and arguments, Return values, Scope of variables (local vs. global), and Lambda functions (anonymous functions).

7. Modules and Packages: Understanding the concept of modules, Importing and using standard library modules, and Introduction to creating and using custom modules.

8. File Handling:

• Opening, reading, and writing to text files.
• Basic file operations.

9. Error Handling:

• Understanding common errors and exceptions.
• Using try, except, finally blocks for exception handling.

10. Object-Oriented Programming (Basic Concepts): Introduction to classes and objects, Defining classes and creating instances, and Methods and attributes.