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#273 Getting dirty with __eq__(self, other)
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:37:05
Publish Date: 2022-03-04 08:00:00
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Michael #1: Physics Breakthrough as AI Successfully Controls Plasma in Nuclear Fusion Experiment

  • Interesting break through using AI
  • Is Python at the center of it?
  • With enough digging, the anwswer is yes, and we love it!

Brian #2: PEP 680 -- tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library

  • Accepted for Python 3.11
  • This PEP proposes basing the standard library support for reading TOML on the third-party library tomli

Michael #3: Thread local

  • threading.local: A class that represents thread-local data. Thread-local data are data whose values are thread specific.
  • Just create an instance of local (or a subclass) and store attributes on it
  • You can even subclass it.

Brian #4: What is a generator function?

  • Trey Hunner
  • Super handy, and way easier than you think, if you’ve never written your own.
  • Really, it’s just a function that uses yield instead of return and supplies one element at a time instead of returning a list or dict or tuple or other large structure.
  • Some details
    • generator functions return generator objects
    • generator objects are on pause and use the built in next() function to get next item.
    • they raise StopIteration when done.
    • Most generally used from for loops.
    • Generator objects cannot be re-used when exhausted
      • but you can get a new one with the next for loop you use. So, it’s all good.

Michael #5: dirty-equals

  • via Will McGugan, by Samual Colvin
  • Doing dirty (but extremely useful) things with equals.
from dirty_equals import IsPositive

assert 1 == IsPositive 
assert -2 == IsPositive  # this will fail!

  user_data = db_conn.fetchrow('select * from users')
  assert user_data == {
       'id': IsPositiveInt, 
       'username': 'samuelcolvin', 
       'avatar_file': IsStr(regex=r'/[a-z0-9\-]{10}/example\.png'), 
       'settings_json': IsJson({'theme': 'dark', 'language': 'en'}), 
       'created_ts': IsNow(delta=3), 
   }

Brian #6: Commitizen

Extras:

  • pytest book
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    • Amazon lists the book as “shipping in 1-2 days”, as of March 2

Michael:

    >>> x = "abcdefg"
    >>> x.startswith(("ab", "cd", "ef"), 2)
    True

Joke: CS Background
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