__slots__是一种节省内存的好方法，但是很难得到对象值的字典。想象下面这个物体:

class Point(object):
    __slots__ = ('x', 'y')

这个对象显然有两个属性。现在我们可以创建它的一个实例，并以这样的方式构建它的字典:

>>> p = Point()
>>> p.x = 3
>>> p.y = 5
>>> dict((k, getattr(p, k)) for k in p.__slots__)
{'y': 5, 'x': 3}

然而，如果point被子类化并且添加了新的槽，这将不起作用。但是Python会自动实现__reduce_ex__来帮助复制模块。这可以被滥用来获得价值的字典:

>>> p.__reduce_ex__(2)[2][1]
{'y': 5, 'x': 3}

可读正则表达式

在Python中，您可以将正则表达式拆分为多行，命名匹配并插入注释。

示例详细语法(来自Python):

>>> pattern = """
... ^                   # beginning of string
... M{0,4}              # thousands - 0 to 4 M's
... (CM|CD|D?C{0,3})    # hundreds - 900 (CM), 400 (CD), 0-300 (0 to 3 C's),
...                     #            or 500-800 (D, followed by 0 to 3 C's)
... (XC|XL|L?X{0,3})    # tens - 90 (XC), 40 (XL), 0-30 (0 to 3 X's),
...                     #        or 50-80 (L, followed by 0 to 3 X's)
... (IX|IV|V?I{0,3})    # ones - 9 (IX), 4 (IV), 0-3 (0 to 3 I's),
...                     #        or 5-8 (V, followed by 0 to 3 I's)
... $                   # end of string
... """
>>> re.search(pattern, 'M', re.VERBOSE)

命名匹配示例(摘自正则表达式HOWTO)

>>> p = re.compile(r'(?P<word>\b\w+\b)')
>>> m = p.search( '(((( Lots of punctuation )))' )
>>> m.group('word')
'Lots'

由于字符串字面值的串联，你也可以在不使用re.VERBOSE的情况下详细地编写一个正则表达式。

>>> pattern = (
...     "^"                 # beginning of string
...     "M{0,4}"            # thousands - 0 to 4 M's
...     "(CM|CD|D?C{0,3})"  # hundreds - 900 (CM), 400 (CD), 0-300 (0 to 3 C's),
...                         #            or 500-800 (D, followed by 0 to 3 C's)
...     "(XC|XL|L?X{0,3})"  # tens - 90 (XC), 40 (XL), 0-30 (0 to 3 X's),
...                         #        or 50-80 (L, followed by 0 to 3 X's)
...     "(IX|IV|V?I{0,3})"  # ones - 9 (IX), 4 (IV), 0-3 (0 to 3 I's),
...                         #        or 5-8 (V, followed by 0 to 3 I's)
...     "$"                 # end of string
... )
>>> print pattern
"^M{0,4}(CM|CD|D?C{0,3})(XC|XL|L?X{0,3})(IX|IV|V?I{0,3})$"

is_ok() and "Yes" or "No"

Python的高级切片操作有一个鲜为人知的语法元素，即省略号:

>>> class C(object):
...  def __getitem__(self, item):
...   return item
... 
>>> C()[1:2, ..., 3]
(slice(1, 2, None), Ellipsis, 3)

不幸的是，它几乎没有什么用处，因为只有在涉及元组时才支持省略号。

EVERYTHING是一个对象，因此是可扩展的。我可以将成员变量作为元数据添加到我定义的函数中:

>>> def addInts(x,y): 
...    return x + y
>>> addInts.params = ['integer','integer']
>>> addInts.returnType = 'integer'

这对于编写动态单元测试非常有用，例如。

只需少量的工作，线程模块就变得非常容易使用。此装饰器更改函数，使其在自己的线程中运行，返回占位符类实例，而不是常规结果。你可以通过检查placeolder来探测答案。结果或通过调用placeholder.awaitResult()来等待它。

def threadify(function):
    """
    exceptionally simple threading decorator. Just:
    >>> @threadify
    ... def longOperation(result):
    ...     time.sleep(3)
    ...     return result
    >>> A= longOperation("A has finished")
    >>> B= longOperation("B has finished")

    A doesn't have a result yet:
    >>> print A.result
    None

    until we wait for it:
    >>> print A.awaitResult()
    A has finished

    we could also wait manually - half a second more should be enough for B:
    >>> time.sleep(0.5); print B.result
    B has finished
    """
    class thr (threading.Thread,object):
        def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            threading.Thread.__init__ ( self )  
            self.args, self.kwargs = args, kwargs
            self.result = None
            self.start()
        def awaitResult(self):
            self.join()
            return self.result        
        def run(self):
            self.result=function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
    return thr