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No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most cases
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I don't know. I have found that the folks on Technology community appreciate many of my computer science posts. But a dedicated Comp Science community which is active, will be awesome.
Thank you! That's helpful. I spent quite some time trying to understand the difference between UTF-8 and Python's representation and arrived at the same understanding as you wrote. However, most of the external documents simply say that strings in Python are UTF-8 which made me conclude that perhaps I am missing something and it might be safer to write it as utf-8.
I will look more in the code as you suggested.
Hi @qwop, I am the author. Thank you for reading and the kind words. I would like to understand the error I made better so that I don't repeat in future, and if I can fix it. Could you please clarify?
I have the same problem. The number of things I want to read and write about is scaling faster than I can tackle them :)