Introducing More of the Standard Library
summary
Covers concrete uses: file handling with pathlib paths and .read_text/.write_text and saving/loading game state to a data folder, date math like “days until next birthday” with datetime replace/isoformat and timedelta, specialized containers—Counter, deque, defaultdict, namedtuple—for counting and queues, iterator tools (chain, islice, combinations, cycle, zip_longest) to avoid copying big lists, and functools utilities—lru_cache making recursive factorial orders of magnitude faster (200! timing example) plus total_ordering and partial; ends with a working tic‑tac‑toe with undo/redo/save/load.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 0:09Simon Ward Jones
- 0:51How Python Code Is Organized
- 1:10Built-In Functions
- 1:44Why Learn the Standard Library
- 10:47Json
- 11:28Renaming a File
- 14:13Replace all Text with Markdown
- 20:51Iso Format
- 33:37Double Ended Queue
- 35:12Max Len
- 37:42Default Dict
- 49:41Ester Tools
- 50:04What Is an Iterator and How Does a for Loop
- 50:20Iterator
- 53:10Tools
- 1:00:17Permutations
- 1:04:35Factorial
- 1:06:44Total Ordering
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