Are str and bytes different? | The Untold Story of Python Data Types Part 5

This is part of the Python Basics for Experts I series.

How hard could Python really be? How much programming do you even need to know to use Python?Also known as: “All the things you wish you knew when you first learnt Python,” “How to short-circuit to 10 years of experience with Python”

Python is a programming language which allows us to focus on human intentionality, on expressing what we are trying to accomplish with our code without burying the reader in the mechanics of how we go about accomplishing it. Every major feature in Python has its place in terms of improving readability, ergonomics, and maintainability, despite being presented as merely just another set of features in a programming language.

In this series, we look at the major features in Python through a set of example problems and investigate how these features contribute to expressing intent and creating readable, maintainable high-level code. We will discuss the motivations behind various features, syntax, and decisions, their relationship to the various metaphors that are commonly present in the code that we write, the rote mechanics that support their use, and how these come together to bring a consistent, coherent, intuitive meaning to our work.

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+ for the advent of code reference :-)