Jun 06, 2025 1h 2m
When you’ve realized the vocabulary and syntax of the Python language, how do you progress into studying the correct mixtures to place into your code? How can Python’s built-in itertools library improve your expertise? This week on the present, we converse with Rodrigo Girão Serrão about educating Python by way of his weblog and his ardour for the itertools library.
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We talk about Rodrigo’s completely different approaches to writing on his weblog. He likes to doc smaller ideas about Python and constructing code in his “Right this moment I Discovered” sequence. He’s additionally been accumulating recommendation about one of the best ways to make use of core Python options in one other sequence known as “Pydon’ts.”
We cowl his current PyCon US tutorial concerning the built-in itertools module. The capabilities contained within the module create iterators for environment friendly looping. We talk about the classes of instruments inside the gathering and methods to simplify your code.
We additionally discover the idea of vocabulary versus idioms in writing. Idioms are a bunch of phrases that maintain a symbolic that means that goes past the literal that means of the person phrases. We dig into how that applies to studying Python and constructing a private assortment of programming idioms.
This episode is sponsored by AMD.
Course Highlight: Working With Lacking Knowledge in Polars
On this video course, you’ll discover ways to take care of lacking knowledge in Polars to make sure it doesn’t intervene along with your knowledge evaluation. You’ll uncover tips on how to examine for lacking values, replace them, and take away them.
Matters:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction
- 00:02:34 – Creating Polars video course
- 00:03:27 – How did you begin programming and educating Python?
- 00:04:59 – The place did mathspp come from?
- 00:05:38 – Exploring math and programming in college
- 00:07:48 – Studying APL
- 00:09:24 – What goes into constructing the weblog?
- 00:15:05 – The Pydon’ts and writing books
- 00:18:37 – PyCon US 2025
- 00:20:46 – Sponsor: AMD
- 00:21:23 – Educating a tutorial about itertools
- 00:28:58 – Categorizing itertools
- 00:40:39 – Video Course Highlight
- 00:41:55 – The distinction between me and Shakespeare
- 00:46:51 – Studying and working towards with idioms
- 00:51:01 – TIL and asking questions
- 00:53:54 – What are you enthusiastic about on the earth of Python?
- 00:55:40 – What do you need to be taught subsequent?
- 00:57:35 – How can folks observe your work on-line?
- 01:01:19 – Thanks and goodbye
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