The Gems of the Python Standard Library
summary
Lists specific utilities and what they do: Enum supports auto values and Flag bitwise OR combining (white = red|green|blue); bisect does binary search on sorted lists; difflib produces ndiff with restore plus context/unified diffs and get_close_matches for fuzzy lookup; pathlib gives Path objects, the / operator, exists/mkdir/open and glob; sched queues functions with time and priority and .run; webbrowser opens URLs; uuid.uuid4 generates random IDs. Code examples run as shown.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00The Gems of the Python Standard Library Alex Zharichenko
- 1:29Data Types
- 3:00Bisect - Array bisection algorithm
- 3:26Text Processing Services
- 3:38difflib - Helpers for computing deltas
- 5:27File and Directory Access
- 7:27Concurrent Execution
- 8:23Internet Protocols and Support
- 8:55UUID - UUID objects according to RFC 4122
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