David Asboth
David is a "data generalist"; currently a freelance data consultant and educator with a background in software and web development. He co-hosts the Half Stack Data Science podcast about data science in the real world and is the author of The Well-Grounded Data Analyst (Manning, 2025); a book about the data skills that aspiring analysts actually need in their jobs.
Session
09-19
16:00
25min
exec: putting Python in your Python so you can code while you code
David Asboth
Did you know you can run Python code within Python itself? In this talk, we explore how you can dynamically generate, and run, Python code using exec and why you might want to do it in the first place.
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