I work hard to avoid it. Still, technically it’s still a statement. Everything is!

They also have a system to find keys efficiently, in the same way you can find "zymology" quickly without having to go through to each word in the dictionary, one at a time.

thepythoncodingstack.substack.com/p/the-misund...

How would you find "zymology" now? And how long do you reckon it will take you to find the word?

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Python's dictionaries are called dictionaries not just because you look up a key (like the word in a real dictionary) and you find the value (the word's definition in the English dictionary)

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Done? It probably didn’t take you too long to find "zymology"

But here's a thought experiment. Imagine that you didn’t know the order of the letters in the alphabet. You can still read letters and words, you just don't know the order.

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And that’s what makes it stick.

I think this is such an important point. Too much learning material focusses on stuffing too much in too little time, ticking off topics at a sprinting pace.

Often you need to let things “brew”.

Yeah, I survived for years without it on a Mac, too. But this thing I’m doing, they insisted on Adobe—some companies don’t change their habits, it seems!

It’s a question of trust. We make this judgement with all products we use: how much do we trust those products.

…unless you explicitly set it to `None`:
```
>>> _ = None
>>> print(_)
None
```

But then, that's just a normal identifier, so maybe it doesn't count!

In our Python for Beginners course we had plenty of exercises where my solution was different to the participants’ ones not because I used fancier tools, but because I used basic tools in a different way.

That’s part of learning how to code…

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Ah… I like modern programming so much better…when you can actually read variable and function names. And they (mostly) make sense…

grtpost

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Or is that only in Bavaria?