Slightly Advanced Python: Some Python Internals
Google Tech Talks
July 1, 2008
ABSTRACT
"Python behind the scenes": some advanced aspects of Python.
The talk addresses an audience of proficient Python programmers and deals with several advanced topics: object creation: metaclasses, new, and init - attribute lookup mechanics and descriptor objects - introspection on objects, garbage collection, stack frames, tracebacks - Python bytecode inspection and alteration.
Speaker: Alex Martelli
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