Sygmei/PythonTalk

Talk about Python quirks

PythonTalk

Summary

• Introduction
• Usurp
  • 📜 Dave the Ninja
• Twins
  • 📜 Check x + 1 is 1 + x
  • 📜 Twins
• Abyss
  • 📜 Tail Call Optimisation
• Capture
  • 📜 Telling a joke to Sabrina
  • 📜 Snake in my presents
• Unique
  • 📜 Oneline tricks
  • 📜 22 lines dict comprehension
  • 📜 Limits of lambdas
  • 📜 Ninja in Lambda
  • 📜 Try / Catch with lambdas
  • 📜 Try / Catch with contextlib
• Corrupt
  • 📜 X divided by 5
  • 📜 Destroy the System
• Conclusion

Issues

Feel free to report any issues about the talk :)

It could be :

• Typos in the slides / README
• Things that are wrong or outdated
• Suggestions or improvements

Downloads

• Source archive
• Powerpoint presentation

Useful links

• Official Python website
• Python2 to oneline
• How to never use lambdas
• Python strings are tricky
• Disassembly Library for Python
• Tail Call Optimisation
• Modifying locals

Part 2 ideas

• How to build functions / classes on runtime from a JSON file
• Generators / coroutines
• https://bugs.python.org/issue46555
• https://github.com/ZeroIntensity/pointers.py
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/972/adding-a-method-to-an-existing-object-instance
• True TCO using stack manipulation
• https://susam.net/blog/peculiar-self-references.html
• Creating a module that pip install the submodule on demand using ModuleType overriding and getattr

Credits

Talk by @Sygmei

Special thanks to @MarionVasseur for helping me with my slides !