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1. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Oct-2016 15:13:07 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   Some fun tips for writing python code. https://blog.michaelckennedy.net/2016/10/10/pythonic-code-by-example-in-5-videos-video-series/
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   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:15:43 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Stephen Sekula
     He's a pythonaut after my own heart, but be careful not to follow his examples too literally: a number of them are either counterproductive by the metrics used in the others, or contrary to modern #Python standards.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:20:10 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Stephen Sekula
     • The λ-Calculus
     @steve, I ♥ !lambda, but they can kill your performance in #Python because there's so much overhead in Python's procedure-call implementation. So #Guido would say you're supposed to use list comprehensions for that stuff at this point.
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:32:50 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Stephen Sekula
     • The λ-Calculus
     @steve, #Guido actually *really* wanted to drop !lambda in #Python 3: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:50:19 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Stephen Sekula
     @steve, the lambda in things like "lambda w: w.lower()" is also typically superfluous, because you can just pass the *class method* directly, e.g.: sort(…, key=str.lower)
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:57:51 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Stephen Sekula
     @steve, I liked the `don't use lists, use dicts' lesson, but the next step after that for many algorithms is actually `don't use dicts, use sets' ☺ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0218/
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 14-Oct-2016 12:44:54 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

     • Stephen Sekula
     Hmm. @steve, I think Chirp dropped all of my responses to you last night: http://status.hackerposse.com/conversation/105211
   • Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Oct-2016 16:46:02 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

     • The λ-Calculus
     !lambda: the Ultimate #GOTO: Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth, or, Procedure Call Implementations #ConsideredHarmful http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5753