8 Common Python Gotchas
Although Python is my favorite programming language, it isn’t without flaws. Every language has warts (some more than others), and Python is no exception. New Python programmers must learn to avoid some common “gotchas.” Programmers learn this kind of knowledge randomly, from experience, but this chapter collects it in one place. Knowing the programming lore behind these gotchas can help you understand why Python behaves strangely sometimes.
This chapter explains how mutable objects, such as lists and dictionaries, can behave unexpectedly when you modify their contents. You’ll learn how the sort() method doesn’t sort ...
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