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Subject: Re: What is considered an "advanced" topic in Python?
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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Mike Driscoll <kyosohma@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ... I was wondering what the community considers to be "intermediate" or
>> "advanced".
>
> Just about any topic on which Dave Beazley has given a keynote talk. :-)

Hehe. First hit is this one, with its awesome slide...

https://youtu.be/l_HBRhcgeuQ?t=3m34s

I showed that to my parents and siblings, most of whom are not
particularly adept with Python, and they found it highly amusing. As a
participant in python-ideas, I found it hilarious... and absolutely
right.

ChrisA