[Pycon] [new paper] "Luciano Ramalho" - Set Practice: learning from Python's set types

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Title: Set Practice: learning from Python's set types
Duration: 45 (includes Q&A)
Q&A Session: 0
Language: en
Type: Talk

Abstract: This talk works on three levels:

1. New Python developers may not be familiar with the powerful built-in set classes, and may miss the opportunity to use them because many popular languages today have less capable set types — if they have them at all. These developers will see how sets can greatly simplify coding.

2. Practicing Python developers interested in building idiomatic and efficient APIS will be inspired by set methods that leverage Python's handy iterable interface and flexible function signatures.

3. Intermediate Python developers considering whether to use operator overloading will see why custom operators make more sense in some classes than others, and learn some techniques and best practices for implementing custom operators in a realistic example: an UintSet class for integer elements that faithfully implements the MutableSet interface over a totally different internal representation based on a bit array instead of a hash table. 

Tags: [u'data-structures', u'datamodel']