O'reilly Programming Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: A look at some of Python’s valuable, but often overlooked, features.In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk about Python with Luciano Ramalho, technical principal at ThoughtWorks, author of the O’Reilly book Fluent Python, and presenter of the Oriole Fluent Python: The Power of Special Methods.Discussion points: The value of some often-overlooked features of Python, including generators, iterators, and the range() function. How Python’s Asyncio module “brought a definition of what the interface should be for an event loop into the core standard library,” says Ramalho. Why Ramalho calls pytest his “go-to library for unit testing, and other kinds of testing.” Striving to avoid surprises and trying to follow the conventions of the language are two characteristics of what Ramalho describes as a “good Pythonic API.” The work of the Python Software Foundation to increa