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Re: Python Interview Questions

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On 07/09/12 19:01, dncarac@gmail.com wrote:
> The set of questions I'm not sure I understand is the 'What
> version did ... appear?' questions.  This, to me, doesn't seem to
> indicate any programming experience or expertise.  A question
> asking 'Do you understand different versions?' and 'How would you
> find out whether a particular version can do a particular thing?'
> (i.e. which version can you use on GAE?) would seem to give good
> information.

The reason *I* ask them is that we have some 2.4 installations
(where things like "with" aren't available) and at the time I typed
up the list, there was some earlier 2.2 and 2.3 code out there where
decorators or sqlite[*] didn't work.

So I guess it's a bit of a "how long have they been programming in
python" experience aspect.  Programmers that have been around a
while often remember the frustration of $FEATURE_LACK and then the
relief of a much better way to do it.  The functionality of
decorators was around far earlier, but the clean syntactic sugar
made it much nicer to use.  The sqlite/sqlite3 libraries were
around, but you had to install them yourself (whether from source, a
custom installer, or your package manager).

As mentioned in another branch of this thread, I don't require
python historians, but do prefer folks that know which features to
check availability for deployment.

-tkc

[*] without installing an add-on

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Re: Python Interview Questions dncarac@gmail.com - 2012-07-09 17:01 -0700
  Re: Python Interview Questions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-07-09 19:19 -0500
    Re: Python Interview Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-09 20:27 -0400
      Re: Python Interview Questions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-07-09 20:05 -0500
      Re: Python Interview Questions Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-07-10 11:29 +0200
        Re: Python Interview Questions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-10 16:44 +0000
          Re: Python Interview Questions Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-07-10 19:07 +0200
        Re: Python Interview Questions Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 19:44 -0700
      Re: Python Interview Questions Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-07-10 09:05 -0700
        Re: Python Interview Questions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-10 16:34 +0000
          Re: Python Interview Questions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-11 02:42 +1000
          Re: Python Interview Questions Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-07-10 10:02 -0700
          Re: Python Interview Questions David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 22:13 -0400
      Re: Python Interview Questions Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-10 18:26 -0400
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