I agree with you that the tutorial should focus at users, not library developers. But assuming that users will never write a class seems wrong. For example, while ago I went through a PyTorch tutorial, which assumes barely any programming knowledge, and yet the first or second example has the user write a class, as this is apparently the conventional way to store parameters for ML models.
--Guido On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 8:32 AM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > It would also be nice for the tutorial to separate between "things you > need to know to use Python" vs "things you need to write a Python library". > > For example, the fact that operators can do different things for > different values (e.g. int, str, list, pathlib) would be in the first > category, while the details of how to override operators can wait for > the second. > > I see many people suffer from content that goes too deep too quickly, > and I'm more and more convinced over time that this is the right place > to draw a separator for Python. Many devs are just using the language > and never implementing a class (or often, even writing a function). > Having a canonical tutorial to get these users through this stage first > before going deeper would be great. > > Cheers, > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/E7Y5MB4JJEB3VW2J24HA7JQZH6JRAOMO/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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