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#441: Python = Syntactic Sugar?

You've probably heard the term "syntactic sugar", that is, syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use. It turns out Brett Cannon has spent 2 years diving into and writing about Python's sweet language features and how they really work down inside CPython. He joins me on the show today to dive into a few of the more relevant posts he's written about it. 
 
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Brett Cannon: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@brettcannon" rel="noopener" target="_blank">@brettcannon@fosstodon.org</a> 
 
Syntactic sugar series: <a href="https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">snarky.ca</a> 
Syntactic sugar: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar" rel="noopener" target="_blank">wikipedia.org</a> 
Unravelling attribute access in Python: <a href="https://snarky.ca/unravelling-attribute-access-in-python/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">snarky.ca</a> 
Unravelling binary arithmetic operations: <a href="https://snarky.ca/unravelling-binary-arithmetic-operations-in-python/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">snarky.ca</a> 
Unravelling the import statement: <a href="https://snarky.ca/unravelling-the-import-statement/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">snarky.ca</a> 
record-type: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/record-type/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">pypi.org</a> 
Watch this episode on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ff2x4_3lTI" rel="noopener" target="_blank">youtube.com</a> 
Episode transcripts: <a href="https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/441/python-syntactic-sugar" rel="noopener" target="_blank">talkpython.fm</a> 
 
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Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast hosted by developer and entrepreneur Michael Kennedy. We dive deep into the popular packages and software developers, data scientists, and incredible hobbyists doing amazing things with Python. If you're new to Python, you'll quickly learn the ins and outs of the community by hearing from the leaders. And if you've been Pythoning for years, you'll learn about your favorite packages and the hot new ones coming out of open source.