Fun with Python's newer tools
summary
Shows concrete new tools and exact code behaviors: use collections.Counter.most_common(50) to get top 50 words (Hamlet example) and combine counters with addition while noting subtraction can produce negatives unless you use saturating logic; use collections.namedtuple plus a ._replace prototype pattern for readable defaults and zero memory overhead; use functools.lru_cache(maxsize=100) to bound caches (fib(100) reduces calls to ~101); new str.format features include thousand separators and attribute/index access.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 7:57Counter
- 17:03Tuples
- 21:41Test results
- 25:42API design
- 29:52Deal structure
- 30:57Default values
- 32:44Uniques
- 34:35Color Palette
- 36:32Cash
- 41:02Dynamic Programming
- 44:06Torsion
- 44:48Count
- 46:14String Formatting
- 53:48Subtract
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