Quotes About Mark Lutz

pdb also includes a postmortem function (pdb.pm()) that you can run after an exception occurs, to get information from the time of the error. See

Because printing runs __str__ and the interactive prompt echoes results with __repr__, this can provide both target audiences with an appropriate display.

map is similar to a list comprehension but is more limited because it requires a function instead of an arbitrary expression.

In Chapter 32, we'll also meet Python static methods (akin to those in C++), which are just self-less functions that usually process class attributes.

We'll use from to load in our script, just because it's a bit less to type.

absolutes in performance benchmarks are as elusive as consensus in open source projects!

That is, a class is a local scope and has access to enclosing local scopes, but it does not serve as an enclosing local scope to further nested code.

Besides directory paths on Windows, raw strings are also commonly used for regular expressions

a raw string cannot end in an odd number of backslashes.