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Some Python features can be confusing if you come from other programming languages. Here I collect notes and resources that can be useful for understanding Python concepts and dynamic typing.

Resources

Book recommendation:

• Effective Python
• Fluent Python

Online tutorials:

• Real Python

Under the hood:

• wtfpython

Lesson #1

Data model and built-in types, sequences, mappings, set, generators

• How to Use Standard Parentheses - ( )

  • Invoking Functions
  • Creating Instances
  • Tuples
  • Generators

• How to Use Square Brackets - [ ]

  • Lists
  • List Comprehensions
  • Retrieving Items from Collections

• How to Use Curly Braces - { }

  • Dictionaries
  • Sets
  • Dict and set comprehensions
  • Formatting Strings

Lesson #2

user-defined types, organising code

• User-defined types

  • Duck typing
  • Static duck typing
  • ABC
  • Inheritance
  • Type hints

• Modules, files, packages

  • Modules, wheel, pip
  • Package API
  • Virtualenv