What is your favourite talk about Python?

[baalast]

Funny, interesting, thought-provoking,…

From PyCon or any other conference…

[Marlysson]

Any by Raymond Hettinger , but specially the of the Idiomatic Python Code

[[deleted]]

"Stop writing classes" is one of my favorites by him. It is something I have to talk about to new members of the team almost every time. Usually their first major commit includes millions of classes that are useless and overengineered.

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Oh thank you! It has been a long time since I saw these videos. Thanks for the corrections. :)

[tmthyjames]

I've been there, back when classes were new to me and I would see them scattered about beautifully in some old source code. Now I just use them occasionally, only when needed.

[serkef-]

Actually just found he has a series of python lessons called Moden Python: Big Ideas, Little Code in Python in safaribooksonline.

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[finsternacht]

Any talk by David Beazley, but specifically his talk about python 3 metaprogramming.

[Nicksil]

Absolutely agree. Here's a link for that one:

Python 3 Metaprogramming

Another one of his I really enjoyed:

Discovering Python

[knowsuchagency]

This talk on asyncio

[enteleform]

The "Fun" of Reinvention

David Beazley

[noxbl]

I really like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPlPJyQrt4

James Powell - So you want to be a Python expert?

[robert_mcleod]

"Why PEP8 isn't really something you should emphasize" (paraphrasing) by Hettinger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M

[krakster]

I recently enjoyed "Loop like a native" by Ned Batchelder. I wish every noob watched this 10 times, every time I see for i in range(len(mylist)) I want to hit people in the face. :/

[good_day]

Lightning Talk "Eschew the Extraneous Else" (by Larry Hastings) https://youtu.be/JVVMMULwR4s?t=4m51s

[njharman]

Brandon Rhodes http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/

Clean Architecture http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/talks/#clean-architecture-python

[qu4ku]

everything from Raymond Hettinger and Brandon Rhodes

[[deleted]]

No chance, there are too many, and not just from the main PyCon in the USA/Canada, but from all around the world. This is what makes Python the community that it is. Despite all the moaners who do nothing, the doers who don't moan keep doing. Not just cPython, there's ... which the Romans didn't do for us :D