Hi All, First apologies for the rather off topic but I grep'd over the existing mailing lists and couldn't find one that's suitable, at least judging by the titles.
My inquiry is both technical and social, first for the technical stuff: 1. When is the use of functools.partial beneficial? When can it be a hindrance? Perhaps it can save on func argument evaluation time when creating many invocations for asycn exec? 2. Is what now is Python 'stdlib' requests the preferred way to work with session / connections pooling and when in need of a very fast performance? Specifically in view of stream buffer issues and posts like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15461995/python-requests-vs-pycurl-performance and ones like: http://jmoiron.net/blog/async-hell-gevent-requests/ Now to the possibly off topic section of this post: 1. Is there an python.org mailing list that Python contractors can post to offering their development services to prospective customers? I'm talking specifically about opening the possibility of working remotely and/or on site internationally, maybe a'la jobattical style. 2. While having quite vast experience with Python, system programming API design and data fetching tasks, it seems that that functional approaches to problem solving in concurrency can always surprise you and there's always a new style to learn (almost as the number of developers engaged in the field). - If I want to prepare myself for any home coding technical drill, question, or otherwise Python convention, where would I go and read? Where do I find practice question to solve while in pursuing of one's Pythonistic career advance to become better than excellent? 3. Home coding tests. What do you think about them? Are they productive / counter productive to a hiring process? Moreover - personally, I do not stand well to whiteboard coding tests as I'm rarely able to come up with the working technical code solutio. I thinks this is due the lack of interactive interpreter and other unnatural conditions that this setting entails. My question comes after going through 3 such in the past, realizing each one can be at max 1 week to solve when you're also catering to the current day job. What other tools then, do some of you use to hire a good developer or maybe there is no other way? Will you also have a candidate attempt solve an extremely technical solution on the whiteboard after he has done a length home drill successfully with the explanation you cannot know for sure it's his own work? Where does one draw the line? Your feedback and comments shall be immensely appreciated, -Sivan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
