What advice would you give someone just getting into Python? What did you learn over time through hard work and a few tears that would have really helped you? It's a fun game to play and we have Jason McDonald on the podcast to give us his take. Enjoy! 
 
Links from the show 
 
<div>Jason C. McDonald: <a href="https://mastodon.online/@codemouse92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@codemouse92@mastodon.online</a> 
Dead Simple Python: <a href="https://nostarch.com/dead-simple-python" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nostarch.com</a> 
Coroutines and Tasks: <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">docs.python.org</a> 
Duck Typing: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wikipedia.org</a> 
Static Duck Typing in Python with Protocols: <a href="https://www.daan.fyi/writings/python-protocols" target="_blank" rel="noopener">daan.fyi</a> 
PEP 709: <a href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0709/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peps.python.org</a> 
PEP 289: <a href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0289/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peps.python.org</a> 
Python Packaging Strategy Discussion - Part 1: <a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/python-packaging-strategy-discussion-part-1/22420?u=pradyunsg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discuss.python.org</a> 
Branch-detective: <a href="https://github.com/CodeMouse92/branch-detective" target="_blank" rel="noopener">github.com</a> 
Hypothesis: <a href="https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">readthedocs.io</a> 
Pydantic v2 announcement: <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/blog/pydantic-v2-alpha/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pydantic.dev</a> 
Michael's venv alias: <a href="https://talk-python-static.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/vnv-aliases.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digitaloceanspaces.com</a> 
Watch this episode on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMWMVfZR-7o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a> 
 
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