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Mike Driscoll <kyosohma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been asked on several occasions to write about intermediate or
> advanced topics in Python and I was wondering what the community
> considers to be "intermediate" or "advanced". I realize we're all growing
> in our abilities with the language, so this is going to be very
> subjective, but I am still curious what my fellow Python developers think about this topic.

Coroutines, metaclasses and decorators is probably high up on the obscurity
list. Writing C extension modules is high up there as well, not to mention
embedding Python and using subinterpreters.


Sturla