@datamancer I'd make them two separate functions if you find yourself particularly wanting both styles.

You could even get fancy and attach one function as an attribute of the other like itertools.chain and itertools.chain.from_iterable (technically chain is a implement as a class but the same could work for functions).

Learning a new skill? I bet you're making 2 big mistakes.

1. You're focusing too much on consuming information
2. You're not focusing enough on repetition

I notice new Python learners falling into this trap. It's a big problem with the resources we use to learn and the way we talk about and use those resources.

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#learning #teaching #Python

Context managers define an entrance step and an exit step which are run automatically when the "with" block is entered and exited.

Read more 👉 https://trey.io/meA1Mx

#Python

Another introductory #Python video: creating Python programs.

Toward the end I briefly address something I see new Python users struggle with all the time: the difference between the REPL and your system's command line.

>>> python3 my_program.py

https://www.pythonmorsels.com/creating-python-programs/

There's no actual "containment" in Python, just containment of pointers.

Read more 👉 https://trey.io/uvntzs

#Python

If Octavia Butler's Parable of The Sower has been on your to-read list, today's a good day to start it.

The book begins on July 20, 2024 in Los Angeles exurbs.

The series involves a pandemic with a xenophobic president running on the slogan "make America great again" and the president neither admonishes nor directly supports his religious extremist supporters.

Butler's future isn't our present, but there's some eerie echos. 😬

Happy(?) Parable of The Sower Day

Announcing a new #Python-powered terminal program: utf-cli. 📣

Run "utf" to launch a sort of local search engine for Unicode characters (I've mostly been using it for emoji characters). ✨

https://pypi.org/project/utf-cli/

An "if" statement can have any number of "elif" statements after it (including none at all) and it can optionally have a single "else" statement at the end.

Read the full article: Python's "if" statements
▸ https://trey.io/ZfjAHe

#Python

Guess which Norwegian, needleworking, library-indexing, BeeWare contributing folks are now on Mastodon in preparation for a future Python conference. 🇳🇴🧵📚🐝

@yngvem & @marieroald!

#PyConUS

@buttondown will you have a booth at @pycon? I'm curious to know how Buttondown compares to my current email/newsletter setup and would love to chat with folks in-the-know.

Regardless of whether you'll have a booth, thank you for sponsoring! 💖

My students often ask me whether they can see a list of every dunder method that #Python has. I've been meaning to compile a categorized list for years.

I finally did it.

Here's every dunder method in Python... all 115 of them! 🤯

https://pym.dev/every-dunder-method/