JGJoshua Goldieinjdgoldie.hashnode.dev·Jan 20, 2023 · 1 min readGetting the Gist: Episode 0Sometimes when coding I'll come across something interesting. It might be a new way to code a particular task, an interesting detail about how some language feature works, a tool or library - old or new - that I want to explore, or a small piece of c...00
JGJoshua Goldieinjdgoldie.hashnode.dev·Jan 18, 2023 · 3 min readGetting the Gist: Functional Magicfunctools is a powerful module that every Python developer should know. It can do more than reduce a list of numbers to a sum (the canonical demonstration example). How about a magic trick? The "Calculator 7 Trick" In truth, this is math, not magic. ...00
JGJoshua Goldieinjdgoldie.hashnode.dev·Jan 10, 2023 · 3 min readGetting the Gist: Avoiding Function Side EffectsOne day the team got into a virtual discussion about mutable argument defaults in Python. This GtG is not about that, but you can read one of the numerous articles about it here. The common thread in all the articles/blog posts about the danger is th...00
