Slightly Advanced Python: Some Python Internals

Google Tech Talks July 1, 2008 ABSTRACT “Python behind the scenes“: some advanced aspects of Python. The talk addresses an audience of proficient Python programmers and deals with several advanced topics: object creation: metaclasses, new, and init - attribute lookup mechanics and descriptor objects - introspection on objects, garbage collection, stack frames, tracebacks - Python bytecode inspection and alteration. Speaker: Alex Martelli