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The Modern Python Cookbook

Date Tue 22 November 2016 Tags packtpub / #python

See https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/modern-python-cookbook This is a large (!) collection of recipes, focused on Python 3, exclusively. It's much easier to write about the version of Python I actually use each day, and leave the old, quirky, slow Python 2 behind. This book doesn't have any "this will …

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Lynda.com Discounts, including SOLID Programming Principles

Date Wed 16 November 2016 Tags Design Principles / #python / SOLID

For Python Programmers: SOLID Programming Principles https://www.lynda.com/trial/StevenLott should get your a discount on all Lynda.com courses. Feel free to share the links.

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PyData DC 2016 -- YouTube Channel

Date Tue 08 November 2016 Tags video / #python / pydata

All The Talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGVZCDnMOq0qLoYpkeySVtfdbQg1A_GiB

You will learn a lot.

Me: Steven Lott | NoSQL doesn't mean No Schema

Steven Lott | The Five Kinds of Python Functions

You may learn something from my presentations.

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PyData DC 2016 -- The Five Kinds of Python Functions [Updated]

Date Wed 26 October 2016 Tags pydata / #python / functional python programming

https://slott56.github.io/five-kinds-of-python-functions Update: Steven Lott | The Five Kinds of Python Functions

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Optimizing complex generator expressions [Updated]

Date Thu 20 October 2016 Tags generator expressions / functional python programming / #python

See this: https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/786920174595158018

The core expression is similar to this

y = (f(x) for x in L if f(x) is not None)

There are a lot of variations on the filter. The point is that the function appears twice in the above expression.

We …

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What was I thinking?

Date Tue 20 September 2016 Tags #python / py-false / interpreted / Programming Languages / forth

Check out this idiocy: https://github.com/slott56/py-false

What is the point? Seriously. What. The. Actual. Heck?

I think of it this way.

  • Languages are a cool thing. Especially programming languages where there's an absolute test -- the Turing machine -- for completeness.
  • The Forth-like stack language is a cool thing …
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Programming language correlates with salary?

Date Tue 06 September 2016 Tags #python

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/which-programming-language-will-earn-you-the-highest-salary/ Okay. I like that. I wonder what the r2 value is.

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On Generator Functions, Yield and Return

Date Fri 26 August 2016 Tags #python / functional python programming / generator functions

Here's the question, lightly edited to remove the garbage. (Sometimes I'm charitable and call it "rambling". Today, I'm not feeling charitable about the garbage writing style filled with strange assumptions instead of questions.)

someone asked if you could have both a yield and a return in the same ... function/iterator …

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Twelve Important Design Patterns

Date Tue 16 August 2016 Tags #python / flask / WebServices / REST
Read this: http://12factor.net/
Then. After reading it. Read it again to be sure you've got it. It's dense with best practices.
Now that you've read it, make yourself a Quality Engineering checklist.
I. Codebase: One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys
II. Dependencies: Explicitly declare and isolate …
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Another Python to the Rescue Story -- Creating a DSL from Python Class Definitions

Date Tue 26 July 2016 Tags #python

https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/automating-nosql-database-builds-a-python-to-the-rescue-story-that-never-gets-old-1d9adbcf6792#.8xp69yxqj

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