Notes for Session 06

4/26/2018

A collection of notes to go over in class, to keep things organized.

Lightning Talks

Ryan Drovdahl

Meet Shah

Issues that came up during the week.

Getting an arbitrary key from a dict

See arbitrary_key.py in examples/session05

dict as switch – how do you leave the loop?

Let’s look at a particularly nifty solution:

solutions/Lesson05/mailroom_dict_as_switch

globals??

a number of folks have been putting code in the global (module) namespace:

the_dict = {}

def fun():
    ...
    the_dict = something()

What’s wrong with this?

Any Questions about the homework – or anything?

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Break and Lightning talks:

Ryan Drovdahl

Meet Shah

Testing?

Did you’all do the testing exercise with a coding bat example?

We could do one now.

Or…

Advanced Argument Passing

All this *arg, **kwargs stuff a bit confusing?

Let’s explore it a bit.

AND – we’ll use TDD to do it.

Exercise here:

https://uwpce-pythoncert.github.io/PythonCertDevel/exercises/args_kwargs_lab.html