Python 3 Metaprogramming

David Beazley
Some of the most significant changes in Python 3 are related to metaprogramming. In this tutorial, I'll cover decorators, class decorators, descriptors, and metaclasses. However, the focus will be on idioms and examples that are only

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Anyone coming across this video and hesitant that it's xyz years old. Do not worry! I'm watching this 8 years after publish and this lecture is still insanely informative, and touches on things that are so core they will likely be relevant in python for years to come still.

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Legitimately the best thing I've seen on UA-cam on Python in my life.

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"This tutorial as you will see in a second aims to combine every horrible insane thing you can possibly have at once." Great tutorial

[@feraudyh]

This guy has a way of making it look easy

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It's 2021, still this video is most useful python video on youtube

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[@danielguffey]

"You can never have enough multiple inheritances, especially with regexes" - David Beazley

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He surely is by far the best speaker or instructor we have in python world, every time i watch any of his videos he simply blows your mind away.. I have just watched first 40 mins of this talk and he has shown stuff you wouldn't even imagine in your dreams .. Great stuff !!

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Watched this video today in 2024 April, 😄He is pro in meta class before 11 years, The one concept which is very help in programming , i got to know today after working 5 years in ptyhon

[@sanchayana2007]

Sir David Beazley , I blown out by the style of your presentation and the way you handle complexities , Truelly Impressed by the Phrases you used to make it constanly interesting . The Attendees throughly enjoyed ... :)

[@balajimarisetti]

I never thought python is this powerful. Thanks David for a very good presentation

[@pawanadhikari110]

One of the best presenter, I enjoyed every millisecond of the presentation

[@richardplester]

David's a great educator-I like the pace and the humour. As a noob to python I landed on this vid by accident and despite it not being not relevant to what I'm studying I ended up watching it all, I guess locking the doors at the back worked ;) Tempted to go get 3.3 and start playing :)

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I've been wondering about Python internals for some time - this is just loverly. Great knowledge and beutiful sarcasm!! And David is a

[@vincentmatossian8500]

Great talk, thank you! I was however a bit surprised to hear that all the dynamic code generation to overcome performance issues related to walking the

[@Nithael_]

This video is simply awesome. I was immediately able to solve a series of problems I have been working on for days. It’s not that the information isn’t out there, it’s that his examples are so good.

[@carlossegura403]

I learned a lot of new concepts from this video! Thanks, David!

[@kuolu9247]

It's Dec. 2022 and I have been a python programmer for 3 years. I still learned so much from this video.

[@corlevtec]

There's just a word that comes to my mind every time I watch this: Addictive!

[@agranero6]

Talks from him are always a pleasure. What he says is as important as what he insinuate. He remembers me of those magicians that pretend that that trick went south and then ... voilá ... it is better than you thought it could be.