09-15, 11:30–12:00 (Europe/London), Ferrier Hall
Mutability is a common GOTCHA for new pythonistas. So where is it a good idea to use mutability? And more importantly where is it a bad idea?
Often defined as a bug, mutability is a powerful feature of Python that frequently trips people up. Most tend to avoid it for the weird behaviour it can create and for good reason. But there may be ways in which it can prove vitally useful.
Let's see if we can make use of mutability as a tool to create features instead of bugs.
This talk will first focus on the nature of mutability before moving on to common ways it trips people up. It will then discuss some bad ways it can be used before moving on to possible positive uses of mutability.
I expect to be disagreed with.
I'm a consultant Python developer helping teams to solve a variety of problems ranging from fighting fake news with ML to scaling sites for Google.
Contributor to Open Source.
Blogger at nick.sarbicki.com.
Admin of the Python Slack workspace (pyslackers.com).