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Episode 12: WTF Python
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Length:
85 minutes
Released:
Jun 10, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
You think you know Python? We thought so, too. Join us for an episode of surprises. You might know some of those, but you sure don't know all of them.
## Outline
(00:00:00) INTRO
(00:02:22) Integer interning with a twist
(00:10:58) Return in finally
(00:15:32) all([[]])
(00:20:06) Lists, iterators and hashing shenanigans
(00:27:08) hash(-1)
(00:31:30) String interning
(00:34:23) PR OF THE WEEK
(00:34:56) asyncio REPL now uses pyrepl, too
(00:44:06) PyOS_InputHook
(00:51:56) WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON
(00:52:05) New core developers!
(00:55:10) 3.13 beta 2 & 3.12.4 released
(00:56:04) Pablo's top 3 favorite pyrepl improvements in Beta 2
(00:59:50) PEP 667 implemented!
(01:02:42) Tian Gao's improvements to pdb
(01:06:31) Uncle Tim's crusade to make int(some_string) asymptotically faster
(01:08:50) datetime now uses interpreter-local static types
(01:09:55) PEP 749 enters the chat, paving the way to a PEP 649 future
(01:11:35) os.fwalk, os.walk, shutil.rmtree now support arbitrary depth directory trees
(01:14:13) Free-threading changes
(01:22:15) OUTRO
## Outline
(00:00:00) INTRO
(00:02:22) Integer interning with a twist
(00:10:58) Return in finally
(00:15:32) all([[]])
(00:20:06) Lists, iterators and hashing shenanigans
(00:27:08) hash(-1)
(00:31:30) String interning
(00:34:23) PR OF THE WEEK
(00:34:56) asyncio REPL now uses pyrepl, too
(00:44:06) PyOS_InputHook
(00:51:56) WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON
(00:52:05) New core developers!
(00:55:10) 3.13 beta 2 & 3.12.4 released
(00:56:04) Pablo's top 3 favorite pyrepl improvements in Beta 2
(00:59:50) PEP 667 implemented!
(01:02:42) Tian Gao's improvements to pdb
(01:06:31) Uncle Tim's crusade to make int(some_string) asymptotically faster
(01:08:50) datetime now uses interpreter-local static types
(01:09:55) PEP 749 enters the chat, paving the way to a PEP 649 future
(01:11:35) os.fwalk, os.walk, shutil.rmtree now support arbitrary depth directory trees
(01:14:13) Free-threading changes
(01:22:15) OUTRO
Released:
Jun 10, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (13)
Episode 1 - Core Sprint in Brno & Python 3.13.0 alpha 1 by core.py