Misc notes from PyCascades 2021

assert takes a second variable:

>>> assert (False), (
  " error" 
  " over many"
  " lines")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AssertionError:  error over many lines

VSCode has electronic device similuators that allow you to test your electronics code: Device Simulator Express

dir() returns the attributes for a given object (locals if no argument), but pdir2 visualises this better

Misc links for electronics packages, helpers:

• github.com/joedevivo/vscode-circuitpython
• github.com/wendlers/mpfshell

Want a fancy command prompt? Try https://starship.rs/

Need loadtesting? Try https://k6.io

Triple dots in Python aren’t only trippy output, but are also a replacement for pass in some situations. https://python.land/python-ellipsis

>>> if True: 
...    ...
... 
Ellipsis

Quoting directly from Łukasz, regarding the fun of the walrus operator:

Old plain strings can sometimes look close enough to f-strings, like "{a} {b}".format(a=1, b=2). This is still useful because “{a} {b}” can be a template you can use multiple times, binding variables later.

Sadly, you can’t do anything smart like “{a+1} {b+1}”, let alone walrus operators.

So, instead of doing:

template = "{a + 1} {b + 1}"

I tend to do:

template = lambda a, b: f"{a + 1} {b + 1}"

Or, more plainly:

def template(a, b): return f"{a + 1} {b + 1}"

Now, you can do:

>>> template(a=1, b=2)
'2 3'

/endquote.

PyCascades 2021 was great!