Layman's Guide to Python Built-in Functions

[smarx007]

"Layman's Guide" ... Matt Layman

This is The ultimate clickbait. Bravo!

[extraduder_ire]

A name up there with Matt Godbolt's in being incredibly apt and sounding made up.

[maw]

Fortunately his surname is not Deacon.

[throw_a_grenade]

Some of that looks incorrect

> all returns True if all elements in something list-like (such as a list or tuple) are “truthy.” If any element is false or if the list is empty, it returns False.

  Python 3.11.2 (main, Aug 26 2024, 07:20:54) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> all([])
  True

[budafish]

See this for an explanation - https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython?tab=readme-ov-file...

> all([]) returns True since the iterable is empty.

[wakawaka28]

To be honest I hate searching for docs on built-in Python functions. The reference is actually hard to navigate and it seems to spread this information out. Thanks for this.

[zt1123G]

Simple concepts, explained daily on HN as long as it's Python. This marketing is how the language got big.

[fuzztester]

raise UnGrokkableStatementException(";)")

[rednafi]

It’s a great language overall. If it ever gets half as fast as Go, it’s going to be game over for many other high level languages.

[rednafi]

AsyncRange already has an __aiter__ method defined. So the aiter(…) in the for-loop is redundant.