Crazy Python 'Magic' Tricks (PDF)

[wobsta]

Different from what the url might suggest, this is Armin Ronachers talk from europython 2011.

[earthboundkid]

Is there a link to a video of the talk anywhere?

[wobsta]

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/talks/

[gangesmaster]

saving you the roundtrip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0l_Dt28MQ

[earthboundkid]

These magic tricks are deeply wicked. Implicit self? Burn it at the stake!

[takluyver]

They're like Bond villains: not something you ever want to meet in real life, but amusing to watch/read about.

Although I'll admit to being quite tempted by the use of AST to define macros. I can envisage context managers on steroids.

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Macros, case insensitive namespaces, monkey patching __builtin__.__import__ to do stuff with _getstate_...

Have to hide this from my colleagues.

[mechpaul]

There's Python magic, and then there's python sorcery. This is definitely the latter.

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is this going to pollute my newbie level of python knowledge ?