"Strong versus weak typing If the language rarely performs implicit conversion of types, it’s considered strongly typed; if it often does it, it’s weakly typed. Java, C++, and Python are strongly typed. PHP, JavaScript, and Perl are weakly typed. Static versus dynamic typing If type-checking is perfo"
"If a class is designed to provide method implementations for reuse by multiple unrelated subclasses, without implying an “is-a” relationship, it should be an explicit mixin class. Conceptually, a mixin does not define a new type; it merely bundles methods for reuse. A mixin should never be instantia"
"The second edition of Python Cookbook was written for Python 2.4, but much of its code works with Python 3, and a lot of the recipes in Chapters 5 and 6 deal with sequences. The book was edited by Alex Martelli, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, and David Ascher, and it includes contributions by dozens of "
"Operating with objects regardless of their types, as long as they implement certain protocols"
"Changing a class or module at runtime, without touching the source code"
"You can think of the data model as a description of Python as a framework."