$(Even More) Python Basics for Experts \u24ea : What is even real?$

Dive into the essence of Python's reality: identity, immutability, and more.
About this Event
This Session

Session details:

Time: 60 min
Target Level: Novice/Intermediate†
Prerequisites: Strong familiarity with basic Python syntax

† Note: this session is designed for ambitious (!) novices—it will be fast-paced, dense session, and packed with critical subtleties & nuances but will cover ground you have likely trod before.

Abstract

In this session, we'll examine factors that impact our ability to manage our data effectively, produce reliable and bug-free code, and design more efficient and reliable data structures. We will look to answer the following questions:

What is the difference between identity and equality... and why should I care?
What is the difference between a live view and a snapshot... and why does it matter?
What is the difference between mutable and immutable data... and how can I use this to improve my code?
What is the difference between immutability and hashability... and how does this affect my design?

Topics: object orientation, identity, equality, mutability, immutability, hashability, Python internals

Series Overview

Lesson plan

Session ⓪: What is even real? (June 6, 11:30am US/Eastern)

What is the difference between identity and equality... and why should I care?
What is the difference between a live view and a snapshot... and why does it matter?
What is the difference between mutable and immutable data... and how can I use this to improve my code?
What is the difference between immutability and hashability... and how does this affect my design?

Topics: object orientation, identity, equality, mutability, immutability, hashability, Python internals

What is the difference between an object and a closure or an object and a generator coroutine… and how does this affect usability?
What is the difference between inheritance and composition… and which should I pick?
What do I need to know about object orientation in Python? What is an example convention? What is an example rule? … and does this make things more understandable?
What is boilerplate elimination, is boilerplate really that bad… and how can eliminating it help me work faster?

Topics: object orientation, functional programming, closures, generators, generator coroutines, inheritance, composition, `'dataclasses.dataclass'

When would I actually write a decorator or a higher-order decorator… and why?
When would I actually write a class decorator… and is this really better than other approaches?
When would I actually write a metaclass… and is there a better way?
When would I actually use eval or exec… and should I feel as guilty when I do it?

Topics: decorators, higher-order decorators, class decorators, metaclasses, '__init_subclass__`', metaprogramming, 'exec', 'eval'

Your Presenter (James Powell)

James Powell is the founder and lead instructor at Don’t Use This Code. He currently serves as Chairman of the NumFOCUS Board of Directors, helping to oversee the governance and sustainability of all of the major tools in the Python data analysis ecosystem (i.e., pandas, NumPy, Jupyter, Matplotlib). At NumFOCUS, he helps build global open source communities for data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts. He helps NumFOCUS run the PyData conference series and has sat on speaker selection and organizing committees for 18 conferences. James is also a prolific speaker: since 2013, he has given over seventy conference talks at over fifty Python events worldwide. In fact, he is the second most prolific speaker in the PyData and Python ecosystem (source: pyvideo.org).

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