Yes, that's what the email said.
I was -- well -- shocked. Too shocked to be polite. Content Warning: much snark follows.
Eventually, it became clear they were worried about tail recursion optimization. Maybe I'm too focused on words, but I think words matter …
Working on revisions to a book. Fun stuff. See https://www.packtpub.com/product/python-3-object-oriented-programming/9781849511261 I may have the privilege of working with Dusty.
I've been using mypy for all my 2nd edition changes, but not in --strict mode.
I've decided to ramp things up, and switch to strict …
more ...I am not patient. I have been dismissed as one who does not suffer fools gladly.
This is a bad attitude, and I absolutely suffer from it. No denials here. I'm aware it limits my ability to help the deeply confused.
My personal failing is not being patient enough to …
more ...Check out https://www.pythonpodcast.com/steven-lott-learn-to-code-episode-283/. This was a fun conversation on Python and learning.
We didn't talk about my books in detail. Instead, we talked about learning and what it takes to get closer to mastery.
It's a thing I worry about. I suspect other writers worry about …
more ...See https://opendatascience.com/removing-items-from-a-set-remove-pop-and-difference/
This puts the focus on a few important set operations.
more ...Python 101, by Michael Driscoll. 545 pages, available from leanpub.com in a variety of formats. Available soon in hardcover.
The modern Python programming language is a large topic. A book on a programming language has to be seen as a collection of several large topics.
At its core, a …
more ...Most of the things that got cut were (to me) obviously obsolete. For example, replacing collections.namedtuple with typing.NamedTuple seemed like a clear example of obsolete. A reviewer really thought I should skip all NamedTuple and use frozen data classes.
More important are some things that I learned about …
more ...See https://towardsdatascience.com/why-python-is-not-the-programming-language-of-the-future-30ddc5339b66.
This is an interesting article with some important points. And. It has some points that I disagree with.