Here's a functional programming design pattern I uncovered. This may not be news to you, but it was a surprise to me. It cropped up when looking at something that needs parallelization to reduced the elapsed run time.

Consider this data collection process.

for h in some_high_level_collection(arg1):
    for l …

This can be an interesting exercise. I think it is something that can help people learn to code well. I found this in the LinkedIn Python community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25827/.

The Palindrome Problem:

Make a function that makes a palindrome out of the letters in a string …

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The Cool New Features in Python 3.8 lists some of the things that could become part of The Modern Python Cookbook 2e. I'm working with Packt on a plan …

https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/python-2-remediation-and-problems-at-sea-a58e805d6468 We're about out of time for this effort.

See https://www.patreon.com/posts/30995708 I've (finally) gotten the book content upgraded to Python 3.7. I've also deleted all the previous versions of the book. I had been keeping them on my web server because -- well -- because I don't know why. They go back to at least …

Author F. L. Stevens has a hellishly complex (and irregular) spreadsheet with agents, agencies, and query status. (This is how fiction gets marketed: querying agents.) The spreadsheet has become unmanageably complex, with multiple pages. Each page has multiple tables. Buried in this are three "interesting" tables with agent query information …

I can't emphasize this enough.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think

“I know, I'll use a spreadsheet.” Now they have two problems.

(This was originally about regular expressions. And AWK. See http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)

Fiction writer F. L. Stevens got a list of literary agents …

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