Summary
What are the key features of a modern dynamic language like Python that let a programmer make progress even against difficult problems, even on days when things are not going well? Starting simple and then ramping up to complex, Brandon takes us from how beginners can use a Python dictionary to pair up matching data, to how to use ctypes to work around limitations in the built-in Python SSL module, as he takes us through the tools and approaches that for a Python programmer are all part of a day's work — the features without which we would not be as productive.