49. Chris Writes Python

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Soroush interviews Chris about his experience writing Python at work over the past couple of months.

Chris was wrong about something! Python is not pass-by-reference; see Is Python call-by-value or call-by-reference? Neither.

Pyramid Web Framework
Google App Engine
Python 2 or Python 3
Unicode in Python 2
Uncle Bob - The Dark Path
Our episode on Tests and Types (Patreon-only)
“if you ignore uncle bob's terrible opinions on women, you can fully appreciate how terrible his opinions on software are” — @pasiphae_goals
mypy: “an experimental optional static type checker for Python”
Truth Value Testing in Python (2.7)
Soroush: Falsiness in Swift
Python Anti-Patterns: Using a mutable default value as an argument
Python List Comprehensions
Stack Overflow discussion: Python List Comprehension vs Map
Python Lambda Functions
Is Python call-by-value or call-by-reference? Neither (Chris was wrong about this!)
PEP-8 : Style Guide for Python Code
PEP-20 : The Zen of Python
PEP-0 : list of all PEPs

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