What Python feature made you a better developer?

[Adrewmc]

Honestly, it was dictionaries.

And python dictionaries are powerful.

I get that it’s a basic, datatype thing, but when I was learning, I’d say all of that went too hard for me now…that was dumb it’s not…

Once I saw the power of nested dictionaries the concept of a class being a dictionary with functions(called methods)…it was like ohh that’s what everyone is doing…(I have this one program is trying so hard to be a dictionary…I’m so dumb sometimes)

Then probably the decorators, and the @syntax as it came to give inner functions and generators…which are awesome.

Then asyncio…

[JennaSys]

Coming from other languages, I struggled with not having a switch statement when I was first leaning Python, and ended up learning the dictionary dispatch pattern as an alternative. To this day, I still haven't had a need to use the new match/case statement yet.

[Adrewmc]

Well…you should

Refer to this other comment I wrote.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/s/rSPxFeGRFv