Status Updates From Learning Python

Finally, finished Part II. Simultaneously mentions advanced topics too early & doesn't go into details too much. But at least it's more scrupulous than HPfFP. Wouldn't recommend, at least based on the 1st 2 parts. But watching videos on FastAPI & Pydantic today made me realize how much cruft Python has accumulated. Is HtDP for Python even possible?

Fin Chapter 8, Lists and Dictionaries. Slice assignments, del, dictionary views (being set-like no less) are interesting.

Ch7 String Fundamentals was long. But now I somewhat understand % and .format better. Ankifying the entirety of Python will take many days, it seems. It feels so long to crawl through this book. There's 41 Chs, and I only've finished 7.

I wonder when I'll have time to make so many Anki cards for all the intricacies of Python.

Monolingual anglophones underestimate how much i18n sucked in Python 2, but I still remember mucking around with encodings & codecs. Unicode everywhere by default in Python 3 was manna from heaven.

This has been a good place to stop and do some coding problems to get more familiar with the language. Lutz obviously wrote this book for me. Someone not new to programming but wants to know every little fucking detail about Python because they overthink.

The obsessive inclusiveness is so weird. Functions are properly introduced in Ch16, but here in Ch3 he teaches you to use importlib.reload and exec(open(module_name).read()). Wat.

No code yet, just superficial explanations of things like byte code and PVM. A lot of things he mentions like Unladen Swallow, Shed Skin, Psyco, are abandoned. PyPy does support 3.6.9 tho.

Like I said in previous status updates, it's verbose & not beginner friendly at all. However it might be perfect for me: incredibly meticulous & ripe for Ankifying. Defo way better than HPfPP & professionally edited. Gonna skim the book this week, next week reading & taking notes much more closely.

Well my views on this book have changed. I will give it 5 stars very likely. This will be the first book of this kind I read front to back. (well I'm going to stop at chapter 36 likely)

It's really hard to reach to the main stuff on this book :D it just never begins. Chapter 4 and just began reading some code.
Here I'm beginning to write practices.