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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 …
more ...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 …
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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:
more ...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 …
more ...https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/python-2-remediation-and-problems-at-sea-a58e805d6468 We're about out of time for this effort.
more ...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 …
more ...Author F. L. Stevens has a hellishly complex (and irregular) spreadsheet with agents, agencies, and query status. (This is how fiction gets marketed: querying agents.) The spreadsheet has become unmanageably complex, with multiple pages. Each page has multiple tables. Buried in this are three "interesting" tables with agent query information …
more ...I can't emphasize this enough.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
“I know, I'll use a spreadsheet.” Now they have two problems.
(This was originally about regular expressions. And AWK. See http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
Fiction writer F. L. Stevens got a list of literary agents …
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