Python FTW: Under the Hood

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• Discover some tools and tricks that every Python programmer should know in order to avoid common blunders.
• Consider the course to be a “Python hacks” handbook.
• Learn to work with Python's unexpected quirks
• Avoid some of the more common errors Python developers come across
• Writer better Python code

Syllabus :

1. Slippery Slopes

• Stubborn del Operation
• The Out of Scope Variable
• Deleting a List Item While Iterating
• A Tic-tac-toe Where X Wins in the First Attempt!
• Lossy Zip of Iterators
• Loop Variables Leaking Out!
• Modifying the Dictionary While Iterating Over It
• Solution Review: Sudoku
• Name Resolution Ignoring Class Scope
• Beware of Default Mutable Arguments!
• Catching the Exceptions
• Same Operands, Different Story!
• Can I Call You Later?
• What's Wrong With Booleans?
• Class Attributes and Instance Attributes
• Quick Quiz!
• Splitsies
• Wild Imports
• Let's Mangle
• All Sorted?
• Midnight Doesn't Exist?
• Needles in a Haystack
• More Needles in the Haystack

 

2. Strain Your Brain!

• First Things First!
• Strings Can Be Tricky Sometimes
• Be Careful With Chained Operations
• How Not to Use the "is" Operator
• Hash Brownies
• Deep Down, We're All the Same
• Disorder Within Order
• Keep Trying...
• For What?
• Quick Quiz!
• Evaluation Time Discrepancy
• 'is not... ' Is Not 'is (not ...)'
• The Chicken and Egg Problem
• Subclass Relationships
• All-true-ation
• The Surprising Comma
• Strings and the Backslashes
• Not Knot!
• Half Triple-quoted Strings
• Quick Quiz!
• The Mysterious Key Type Conversion
• Non-Reflexive Class Method
• Yielding None
• Yielding From...Return!
• Nan-reflexivity
• Mutating the Immutable!
• The Disappearing Variable From Outer Scope
• Let's See If You Can Guess This?

 

3. Appearances Are Deceptive!

• Skipping Lines?
• Teleportation
• Well, Something Is Fishy...
• Quick Recap

 

4. The Hidden Treasures!

• Okay Python, Can You Make Me Fly?
• 'goto', but Why?
• Brace Yourself!
• Let's Meet Friendly Language Uncle for Life
• Even Python Understands That Love Is Complicated
• Yes, It Exists!
• Ellipsis
• Inpinity

 

5. Miscellaneous

• '+=' Is Faster
• Let's Make a Giant String!
• Slowing Down dict Lookups
• Bloating Instance dicts
• Minor Ones
• More of These
• This is the End

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