TIL (Today I Learned)
The TIL series of articles contains very short articles documenting something I learned “today”.
Today I learned how to use the namedtuple from the module collections.
Today I learned about the Python module selectors to manage multiple socket connections.
Today I learned that the module contextlib provides with a context manager to suppress specified errors.
Today I learned about the symmetry in indexing from the beginning and end of a list with the bitwise invert operator.
Today I learned how to write the Quicksort algorithm in a weird functional style.
Today I learned about the DARPA network challenge and the power of referral systems.
Today I learned you can use pathlib to read the contents of a file.
Today I learned how the rich comparison protocol and, in particular, how eq works behind the scenes.
Today I learned that Python 3.5+ supports the operator @ for matrix multiplication.
Today I learned that you can use emojis as variable names in Python if you use pythonji.
Today I learned that the .join method in Python is a two-pass algorithm, and that's why joining a list comprehension is faster than a generator expression.
