funcy VS python-mastery

On an unrelated note, Python folks should check out OP's library funcy [1]: "A collection of fancy functional tools focused on practicality. Inspired by clojure, underscore and my own abstractions."

Thanks for the library Suor!

[1] https://github.com/Suor/funcy

Functional semantics are available in Python, but IMO not that great. List, dict, and generator comprehensions allow you to perform most operations that you would use in a functional first programming language and there are third party libraries like toolz and funcy that implement some of the more advanced operations. The main issue I've found with using Python as a functional language is it doesn't support fluent syntax. With Scala you can do a relatively complex map/filter/reduce operation with syntactic ease list_of_ints.map(x => x*x).filter(x => x%2 ==0).reduce(x,y => x+y) With Python it's just clunky and less readable b/c of support of list comprehension syntax over fluent syntax. sum([x**2 for x in list_of_ints if x % 2 == 0]) A codebase with 5000 lines of the Scala style code will be much readable and maintainable than with the Python style code.

Also worse looking at: https://github.com/suor/funcy

I came here to mention Dave Beazley's courses and talks.

In particular, I recently prepped/ran a week-long, in-house training session of Dave's Python-Mastery[1] course at my day job. We had a group of 8 with a mix of junior and senior Software Engineers and while the juniors were generally able to follow along, it really benefited the senior SEs most. It covers the whole language in such depth and detail that you really feel like you've explored every nook and cranny by the time you're done.

[1] https://github.com/dabeaz-course/python-mastery/

(I enjoyed teaching the class so much that I've considered offering my services teaching it on a consulting basis to other orgs. If that interests anyone, feel free to reach out to the email in my profile.)

Another great course is David Beazley's Advanced Python Mastery; he just put it all up on github (PDF of all slides + exercises) https://github.com/dabeaz-course/python-mastery

It's designed as a four-day workshop. Lots of material around 'mature' Python code