💡🐍 How to Remember Useful Code Snippets to Make Your Code More Pythonic?

Have you ever encountered a Python code example you had no immediate use for but you really wanted to remember it because it seemed useful?

In this video I'll reply to a question about remembering Pythonic code snippets and other code examples I got on YouTube from ambiyou:

"If I discover more useful pythonic way of doing something (eg from your book) but it doesn't make sense to use it in any of my current projects to practice, how can I remember to use it in the future when it is relevant? I have FOMO for that sort of thing."

Super interesting question and in my answer I'm sharing how I approach this problem in my life as a Python dev. This is also useful if you're learning Python right now and you're struggling to remember everything you've learned so far.

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[GregorSchafroth]

Might be an old video but was still nice to see. I'll go with Notion :)

[akimboanansi]

Thanks for the answer Dan, I'm happy that this is pretty much what I have ended up doing, although I've just been dumping everything in a markdown file in a semi-organized way. A dedicated snippet app would probably be better for searchability. It's really nice to hear that this is approach is used, and works. Never fails to boost my confidence!

[JohnMarkIsaacMadison]

I keep a large shortcut file of 10, 000+ shortcuts. I number them all in chronological order and give them typeable synonyms.
Example: Typing: "for-loop-js" "js-loop" pastes a basic javascript loop.
I also use it to open documentation.

I've found information has a habit of branching out in so many directions is becomes unmanagable.
So by indexing every piece of information I've been exposed to, it becomes easier to re-visit.

[Anvesh]

why not jupyter notebooks? They are notebooks essentially, you can describe the snippet and paste the code, and when you wanna use it, you can test a little bit before applying it.

[vivekmangipudi]

abc.py runs and generated a bunch of files "F" and writes them to disk
def.py read generated files and dumps another set of files "FF" to disk
xyz.py reads "FF" from disk and trains a neural network on it.

how do I do something like
python chain.py

so that abc.py is first executed, and upon successfull completion is followed by def.py and finally after def.py is done, xyz.py runs.


I know I can do it with bash. But I want to do it using python.

[hawwestin]

Evernote have great search built in. Make a print screen and with built-in ocr it will find code on it. And some usefull hot keys for pasting clippboard in new note

[gauravsitlani]

Hey Dan are there any design patterns in Python for systems programming ?

[mkrajaci]

Hey Dan, I use Google Keep. It has all you have mentioned.