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Oct 30, 2021 · Fundamentals

Lesser‑Known Python Standard Library Features and Techniques

This article explores several lesser‑known Python standard‑library techniques—including string sanitization, iterator slicing with itertools.islice, skipping initial lines, enforcing keyword‑only arguments, creating custom context managers, using __slots__ for memory savings, limiting CPU/memory via the resource module, controlling module exports with __all__, and simplifying comparisons with functools.total_ordering.