James Powell - Are generator-coroutines really the answer? | PyData London 2024

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Timestamps for titled video.

Contents:

00:00 Introduction
00:31 Disclaimer about the talk
00:46 What is a function?
01:13 What is a generator?
01:50 Function returning a generator
02:12 Generator Coroutine Protocol
02:58 Iterator v/s Iterable?
03:28 Traditional python coroutine
03:57 Modern python coroutine (with async def)
04:33 Yield in an async function?
04:57 Let's talk about generators
06:00 Decomposing a computation using traditional functions
07:40 Decomposing a computation using generators
08:46 Eager evaluation v/s Lazy evaluation (in-depth)
12:22 Function to Generator to Coroutine
13:17 Nature of decomposition (Homogeneity v/s Heterogeneity)
16:08 Modeling heterogeneity using Pandas with a trading example
19:18 Iteration helpers with progressive improvements
22:33 Iteration helpers with itertools
24:28 Value disintermediation and their minimizing strategies
27:14 Expanding upon Iteration helpers with more itertools
27:43 Generators in modeling State Machines
32:35 Gotchas while using a generator
34:39 Eliminating modalities using "pumping" and their caveats
37:22 Pumping Coroutine-Coroutine model?
38:25 Revisiting Value disintermediation with an example and final notes

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