See "Additional, Related Content". It's one of the posts here: https://www.patreon.com/slott.

I think there's space for a Building Skills in Functional Python title next to the Building Skills in OO Design.

See https://github.com/slott56/cpx-xmas-ornament You'll need a Circuit Playground Express https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333 Install the code. Enjoy the noise and blinky lights. The MML translation isn't as complete as you might like. The upper/lower case for the various commands isn't handled quite as cleanly …

>>> t_s = (8063599, 0)
>>> fields = [(t_s := divmod(t_s[0], b))[1] for b in (60, 60, 24, 7)]
>>> list(reversed(fields + [t_s[0]]))
[13, 2, 7, 53, 19]

I've recorded two courses for LinkedIn Learning https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me

Let me emphasize that their production values take a lot of work. While I think I'm a pretty good live presenter, a few days in the recording booth with a producer, reveals all my weaknesses. so. um …

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 …