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Python FTW: Under the Hood

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Explore Python's hidden treasures, including easter eggs, special modules, and unique syntax features. Learn about seldom-known elements like the antigravity module, the Zen of Python, and the else clause on loops. This lesson helps you appreciate Python's quirks and improves your understanding of its deeper mechanics.

We'll cover the following...
  • Python has multiple elements of surprise and many easter eggs. Some of them are:
    • The antigravity module.
    • Working implementation of the goto construct.
    • A feature using curly braces to denote the scope in the __future__ module (don’t be excited about it though).
    • A feature using <> as the not-compare-equals operator (≠) in the __future__ module.
    • The this module containing the Zen of Python, and its counter-intuitive code.
    • The else clause for loops and exception handling.
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