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Talk Python To Me

#150: Technical Lessons Learned from Pythonic Refactoring

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8635 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Does your code smell? Have a weird fragrance? It turns out code smells are a real thing and an amazing conceptualization of suboptimal design. This week you'll meet Yenny Cheung who has some practical and real-world advice on using refactoring in Python to improve your code and wash away those code smells.

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0:00.0

Does your code smell? Does it have a weird fragrance?

0:02.8

It turns out code smells are a real thing and an amazing conceptualization of suboptimal design.

0:08.8

This week, you'll meet Yenichung, who has some practical and real-world advice on using refactoring and Python to improve your code and wash away those bad smells.

0:18.3

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 150 recorded January 31st, 2018.

0:36.6

Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

0:44.4

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.

0:48.1

Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at TalkPython.fm, and follow the show on Twitter via At TalkPython.

0:54.6

This episode is brought to you by ParkMyCloud and Rollbar.

0:58.5

Please check out what they're offering during their segments.

1:00.4

It really helps support the show.

1:02.3

Talk Python to me is partially supported by our training courses.

1:06.0

Python's async and parallel programming support is highly underrated.

1:10.3

Have you shied away from the amazing new Async and Awake keywords because you've heard

1:13.8

it's way too complicated or that it's just not worth the effort?

1:17.9

For the right workloads, a hundred times speed up is totally possible with minor changes

1:22.2

to your code.

1:23.4

But you do need to understand the internals.

1:25.3

And that's why our course, Async techniques and examples in Python,

1:29.3

show you how to write async code successfully as well as how it works.

1:34.0

Get started with Async and await today with our course at TalkPython.fm slash async.

1:40.2

Yenie, welcome to Talk Python.

1:41.4

Hey, yeah, very excited to be on here.

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