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📺🐍 Cool New Features in Python 3.8 realpython.com/courses/cool-n…

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 …

See http://bit.ly/DataUnlockedTwitter You can't go wrong with these kinds of discounts. #DataUnlocked

See Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design for the old content, which has a number of features that hold up well over time.

1. A graduated series of exercises to build up large, complete applications is important.
2. It covers a lot of skills essential to building real applications -- unit testing, integration, code …

For a training class, I needed to address The Windows Problem™. TWP is the my summary of all the non-standard features of Windows in its various inconsistent incarnations.

Any training class that involves "install Python" inevitably involves at least one Windows user who can't get their PATH set correctly. It's …

The book https://www.packtpub.com/programming/mastering-object-oriented-python-second-edition

Some new chapters.

Type hints almost everywhere.

The examples https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Object-Oriented-Python-Second-Edition

If you want to write a review, DM me on twitter @s_lott I can add you to the list for freebies in exchange for a review.