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• •Python data model: understand how special methods are the key to the consistent behavior of objects
• •Data structures: take full advantage of built-in types, and understand the text vs bytes duality in the Unicode age
• •Functions as objects: view Python functions as first-class objects, and understand how this affects popular design patterns
• •Object-oriented idioms: build classes by learning about references, mutability, interfaces, operator overloading, and multiple inheritance
• •Control flow: leverage context managers, generators, coroutines, and concurrency with the concurrent.futures and asyncio packages
• •Metaprogramming: understand how properties, attribute descriptors, class decorators, and metaclasses work