Description
Always Use Sets!
In this talk, we'll show how to use sets to improve the performance and clarity of our code. We'll even show non-set-like cases that gain enough performance by leveraging sets to make this approach worth some amount of extra complexity.
Speaker: Andy Fundinger
Andy Fundinger is a senior engineer at Bloomberg, where he develops Python applications in the Data Gateway Platform team and supports Python developers throughout the firm through the company's Python Guild. Andy has spoken several times at PyGotham, as well as other conferences such as QCon, PyCaribbean, and EuroPython.
In the past, Andy has worked on private equity and credit risk applications, web services, and virtual worlds. Andy holds a master's degree in engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.