Awesome Things You’ve Missed in Python (/dev/world/2010)
Channel: AUC_ANZ
Date: 14/12/2014

Presenter: Chris Neugebauer
The Python Programming Language has always allowed rapid development of applications for a wide variety of systems, including Mac OS, where it is a first-class Cocoa language. You may have coded in Python before, but as a constantly-evolving language, the Python that you learnt a few years ago is probably not the best possible Python that you could write today. This talk shows how to write better and safer Python code more quickly by taking advantages of recent features that appear in Python 2.6, the default version newly included in Snow Leopard. This talk will also show you how to future-proof your code in preparation for the transition to the backwards-incompatible Python 3 (which any actively-developed Python codebase will need to eventually make).