Eric Rishmüller
Lead Data Engineer with 7 years of experience working in the data universe.
Session
11-19
11:00
30min
Do You Know What a Variable Is? Do You Really?
Eric Rishmüller
Everyone knows what a variable is until 300 is 300 returns False.
Something is going on under the hood that (hopefully) most Python developers never question. This talk pulls back the curtain on how CPython actually represents your everyday int, why the rules seem to bend at certain thresholds, and what any of this has to do with idle games throwing around numbers bigger than the atoms in the universe.
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