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RafeKettler / magicmethods

magicmethods

Guide to Python's magic methods

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.7KGitHub stars
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Guide to Python's magic methods

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-11-25 10:54:04 UTC to 2016-11-13 07:10:49 UTC.

01232012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Like many similar articles, it seems to be missing the very important `next`. I understand it didn't actually gain underscores until Python 3, but it's still been part of one of the most important protocols in Python for many years (the iterator protocol). Discussion of similar article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6886411 Direct link to the article from that discussion (original no longer available): https://github.com/RafeKettler/magicmethods/blob/master/magi...
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