Yngve Mardal Moe
Yngve is also an experienced Python educator, Python developer and data science consultant. He has taught Python to professionals, university students and academics. While working at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, he headed a project transforming introduction to Python into a tutorial-based course focusing on active learning. He is currently tech lead, working on automating the Norwegian power grid.
Session
09-21
14:00
25min
Why `len('😶🌫️') == 4` and other weird things you should know about strings in Python
Marie Roald, Yngve Mardal Moe
Strings in Python behave in all sorts of unexpected ways: len('😶🌫️') == 4, 'ñ' != 'ñ', 'dlrow olleh'.split()[1] == 'olleh'! How is this possible? And importantly, why should you care?
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