Would you like to explore the functional programming side of Python? What are the advantages of this approach, and what tools are built into the language? This week on the show, author Bruce Eckel talks about functional programming in Python.

Bruce is the author of several programming books, including Thinking in Java, Thinking in C++, Thinking in Python, Atomic Scala, and most recently, Atomic Kotlin. He’s been an explorer of programming languages over his career. Functional programming—with its lack of side effects, its transparency, and its potential for parallelization—has recently caught Bruce’s attention.

Bruce’s talk “Making Data Classes Work for You” at PyCon US 2022 explored the idea of the invariance of objects.

We also discuss his next book project, the Python community, and his affection for “un-conferences”. Bruce is hosting the upcoming Summer Tech Forum in Crested Butte, Colorado, this August.

Course Spotlight: Using Data Classes in Python

Data classes were introduced in Python 3.7. When using data classes, you don’t have to write boilerplate code to get proper initialization, representation, and comparisons for your objects.

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