Learn Hard Python the Harder Way

[0.5 day] So you've learned a thing or two about how Python works, but do really know what's going on under the covers? In this afternoon seminar, it's just you and a small group of other programmers with David Beazley as he takes you on an intense no-holds barred three-hour tour of "hard" Python programming topics. These include the design of the object system, inheritance, understanding super(), descriptors, attribute access, function internals, closures, callables, decorators, class decorators, context managers, and metaclasses. Should you survive, you'll walk away with a much better understanding of how libraries and frameworks bend Python to perform all sorts of interesting magic. Just in case things get out of hand, Python core developer Raymond Hettinger will also be on hand to administer first-aid.

Major topics include:

• A review of Python classes and objects.
• Internals of the object system.
• Inheritance and the MRO
• Diabolical features of super()
• Customizing attribute access
• Function objects
• Function scoping rules
• Closures
• Callable objects
• Decorators
• Context managers
• Class decorators
• Metaclasses