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Pythonic Python: Idioms, Quality & Performance

Write Python that senior devs respect. Master idioms, linting, profiling, and debugging to transform working code into clean, fast, professional Python.

Day 1: Check-In~15m

Week 1 · Python Idioms

Day 2: Week 1 Opener~15m
Day 3: EAFP vs LBYL: Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission~15m
Day 4: Truthiness, Ternary Expressions, and Chained Comparisons~15m
Day 5: The Walrus Operator (:=) and Assignment Expressions~15m
Day 6: Python Unpacking Idioms: Star Expressions and Dict Merge~15m
Day 7: enumerate, zip, and Iteration Idioms~15m
Day 8: Quiz~10m

Week 2 · Code Quality & PEP 8

Day 9: Week 2 Opener~15m
Day 10: PEP 8 in Practice: The Style Guide That Matters~15m
Day 11: Python Linting with Ruff: Catch Bugs Before Running~15m
Day 12: Docstrings and Documentation: Code That Explains Itself~15m
Day 13: Type Checking with mypy: Find Bugs Without Running Code~15m
Day 14: Common Anti-Patterns and Code Smells in Python~15m
Day 15: Quiz~10m

Week 3 · Performance

Day 16: Week 3 Opener~15m
Day 17: Python timeit: Benchmark Before You Optimize~15m
Day 18: Profiling with cProfile: Find the Real Bottleneck~15m
Day 19: Memory Efficiency: Generators vs Lists and __slots__~15m
Day 20: String Performance and Common Traps~15m
Day 21: Caching with functools.lru_cache and dict Lookup Patterns~15m
Day 22: Quiz~10m

Week 4 · Debugging & Introspection

Day 23: Week 4 Opener~15m
Day 24: Python pdb and breakpoint(): Interactive Debugging~15m
Day 25: Reading Stack Traces: Decode Python Error Messages~15m
Day 26: Logging Strategies: Replace print() with Professional Output~15m
Day 27: Python inspect and dis: See How Python Sees Your Code~15m
Day 28: Capstone: Refactor, Profile, Debug, and Ship~15m
Day 29: Quiz~10m
Day 30: Reflection~15m