Python

A pragmatic language, values your time over the machine’s time

Makes sense for many kinds of problems

It’s a tool I enjoy to use

It gets out of your way and enables you to express yourself comfortably

After a while it starts to feel like speaking plain English

There is a drawback with flexible and expressive languages like Python, Ruby, or Lisp, they don’t enforce rules and structure so its easy to do things in clever and convoluted ways

So it requires self discipline from the team to keep a project well organized, readable, and maintainable

For example list comprehensions brings great expressive power but you will also see people writing unnecessarily complicated list comprehensions

Check out poetry, mypy, pydantic, pylint, autoflake, autopep8, isort, black, pytest, coverage, pre-commit, loguru, ..

standard library

Sub-pages

• Call C code from Python
• Python Data Structures
• Python Guidelines
• Python Packages
• Zen Of Python

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