49. Chris Writes Python

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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