[Python-3000] Best Practices essays

[Edward C. Jones]

"Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> wrote:

 > Right.  I am really starting to think that having a group of Best
 > Practices essays that discuss common Python idioms might be handy.
 > Part tutorial, part advanced usage, they would provide a way for
 > people to have a place to go to find out expected usage of things
 > such as iterators without having to discover this kind of thing the
 > hard way.  Could also help us see where possible improvements could
 > come in for Py3K if we write them from the perspective of 2.x, or
 > even how things improve if we write them for Py3K.

That's a good idea. Include everything from m * [n * [0]] to pickling 
classes with __new__. For the latter, Google on "pickling a
subclass of tuple".