The Gems of the Python Standard Library

Thunder Talk

You may know about a lot of the amazing standard libraries such as collections, json, sqlite3, argparse, etc.

But what about the more unknown libraries, such as sched, struct, enum, bisect, heapq, decimal, statistics, pathlib, and many more!

This talk will go through, at a high level, the usage of some of these libraries and how they can allow you to performs some tasks more computationally efficient or hack together solutions faster without needing additionally third party libraries.

Presented by

Alex Zharichenko

Currently a software engineer intern at Uber Advanced Technologies Group, working on self driving cars. A member of the local Pittsburgh Python meetup group. A student majoring in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Pittsburgh.