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Awesome Python features explained using the world of Harry Potter

Awesome Python Features Explained Using Harry Potter

As outlined in my blog post, I decided to take on a new habit using a technique I found on the 'get disciplined' subreddit.

As one of my new habits I chose: "Code for 15 minutes every day". As part of the habit I've started creating a series of blog posts on important and awesome Python features, including object oriented programming, properties, function annotations, duck typing, etc.

Since I was bored by the usual tutorial examples, I looked for a topic that would make it fun to study and implement the concepts. And since I absolutely love Harry Potter, I started creating a whole Harry Potter universe around the topics. So if you like Harry Potter and want to improve your Python knowledge and skills (and maybe also your Harry Potter knowledge), get right into it!

A logbook of what I worked on each day can be found on my website.

The code runs in Python 3.6, the code on data classes requires Python 3.7 (or you pip install data classes for Python 3.6).

Start date: 07/23/2018

Overview

Day	Topics	Blog post with explanations	Code for the day
1	Intro to object oriented programming, classes, inheritance	Day 1	Code day 1
2	Class methods, instance methods, static methods, using class methods as alternative constructors	Day 2	Code day 2
3	Function annotations	Day 3	Code day 3
4	To-string conversion, __repr__, __str__	Day 4	Code day 4
5	Decorators	Day 5	No new code added
6	Properties, @property and property(), setters, getters	Day 6	Code day 6
7	Underscore patterns for variable naming, _variable, __variable, __variable__, etc.	Day 7	No new code added
8	New methods and classes added to the HP universe	Day 8	Code day 8
9	Duck typing, EAFP principle	Day 9	Code day 9
10 & 11	Namedtuples	Day 10 & 11	Code day 10 & 11
12 - 15	Abstract Base Classes	Day 12 to 15	Code day 12 to 15
16 - 18	Data Classes	Day 16 to 18	Code day 16 to 18

Feedback

In case you find a mistake in the code or the blog posts, please let me know by opening an issue!