Beautiful Pythonic Refactorings

Episode #275, published Sat, Aug 1, 2020, recorded Thu, Jul 9, 2020

Do you obsess about writing your code just the right way before you get started? Maybe you have some ugly code on your hands and you need to make it better. Either way, refactoring could be your ticket to happier days! On this episode, we'll talk through a powerful example of iteratively refactoring some code until we eventually turn our ugly duckling into a Pythonic beauty.

Conor Hoekstra is our guest on this episode to talk us through refactoring some web scraping code.

Links from the show

The PyCon talk: youtube.com
Presentation source code: github.com/codereport
Conor on Twitter: @code_report
Youtube channel: youtube.com/codereport
Perf example exceptions vs. test: gist.github.com/mikeckennedy
PyCon Online: us.pycon.org/2020/online
RAPIDS AI project: rapids.ai
Slides from presentation (with 9 refactoring steps): github.com/codereport
Talk Python episode on Sourcery: talkpython.fm/266

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PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV: docs.python-guide.org
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm

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Conor Hoekstra

Conor is a Senior Library Software Engineer at NVIDIA working on the RAPIDS team. He has six years of professional C++ experience (and is on the ISO C++ Canadian National Body) and one year of professional Python experience. He is extremely passionate about programming languages, algorithms and beautiful code. He is the founder and organizer of the Programming Languages Virtual Meetup and he has a YouTube channel where he covers solutions to competitive programming problems.

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