A recent Twitter poll went around the web and it asked, what percentage of the Python standard

library do you think you know?

Someone copied me on it, maybe expecting some really high percentage answer like 80, 90%.

In reality, what I did answer, and my rough estimate still is, that's probably around 50%.

This episode with Alessandro Molina definitely helped confirm that estimate for me.

He just published a book entitled Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook.

And it's full of these great little corners of the standard library that you might not have bumped into,

but you'll be super glad to hear about them on this episode.

It's Talk by Thundamy, episode 197, recorded January 10th, 2019.

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

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Alessandro, welcome back to Talk Python.

Hi, Michael.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's great to have you on the show again.

It's been a long time since back on episode 35 when we talked about Turbogears.

And you're back with a new project that I think is really, really cool, a look at the

standard library through a modern Python lens, which I'm excited to dig into with you.

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