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Re:Things to use in Python 3 by mixmastamyk on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:21AM (#19916629)
It pays to look thru the stdlib every so often, there is just so much there, and plenty of dark corners (in the Warcraft sense) to look in.

I hand rolled stuff in itertools/functools for years before discovering them.... collections Counter, etc.

Or how about str.partition instead of try: str.split() ?

Re:Things to use in Python 3 by Twirrim on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:45AM (#19916742)
On a related note, every couple of years I make an effort to man page every cli tool I use, and re-read the man page, just in case. Most times I discover there is some argument that I've missed before in a tool (or has been added in the intervening time)
Re:Things to use in Python 3 by jedberg on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:23AM (#19917388)
When my dad sold cars he’d always tell his customers to read the car manual again after six months for the same reason.