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Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python

Next Day Video · 1.1M views · 2013-03-21 · 48:51

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Overview

Raymond Hettinger's PyCon 2013 talk on transforming code into idiomatic Python through a series of before-and-after refactorings. It shows how to use iterators, dictionaries, named tuples and other language features well.

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HN treats it as a must-watch classic for writing Pythonic code, though somewhat dated for modern Python.

Recommended by 9 HN people across 9 months · HN mentions 2014–2022

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jka · 2021-01 · Strong recommendation

Your mention of simple and clean code makes me think of the excellent talk "Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python". Although it relates to Python programming, if the ideas and principles (and thoughtfulness and pace) from it could be applied to much more written code, then (I think) we as an industry and all our users would be in a better place. [1] - [VIDEO]

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bhoeting · 2017-11 · Strong recommendation

I've never heard of Raymond Hettinger before but I'm currently watching one of his videos [1] and it's amazing. Thanks for sharing your list, I'll definitely look up some more of these people. [1] [VIDEO]

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clusmore · 2017-01 · Strong recommendation

Must watch: [VIDEO] I believe that the list comprehension will be faster than filter, but as always, any time you replace readable code with unreadable code for performance reasons, you damn well better time it.

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