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Python Developer Interview Notes

The document outlines key topics for a Python developer interview, including advanced concepts like descriptors and MRO, performance optimization techniques, and testing strategies. It also covers real-world application insights, code review essentials, database management with ORM, and concurrency considerations. These notes serve as a personal preparation guide and are not derived from existing online resources.

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Python Developer Interview Notes

The document outlines key topics for a Python developer interview, including advanced concepts like descriptors and MRO, performance optimization techniques, and testing strategies. It also covers real-world application insights, code review essentials, database management with ORM, and concurrency considerations. These notes serve as a personal preparation guide and are not derived from existing online resources.

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Python Developer Interview Notes

1. Advanced Python Concepts:

- Use of descriptors for attribute access control.

- Understanding of MRO (Method Resolution Order) in multiple inheritance.

- Custom metaclasses and their use cases.

- Efficient use of context managers beyond 'with open' (e.g., for transactions, locks).

- Python memory model and garbage collection in CPython.

2. Hidden Performance Tricks:

- Leveraging built-in functions for performance (e.g., map, filter vs. list comprehensions).

- Avoiding global variable access in performance-sensitive functions.

- Use of `functools.lru_cache` for memoization.

- Profiling tools: `cProfile`, `line_profiler`, `memory_profiler`.

3. Testing and Debugging:

- Writing property-based tests using Hypothesis.

- Monkeypatching with pytest for mocking.

- Debugging coroutines and async functions with built-in `asyncio` debug flags.

- Effective logging strategies in multithreaded/multiprocess environments.

4. Real-World Application Insights:

- Decoupling logic using event-driven patterns and pub-sub.

- Optimizing data pipelines using generators and streaming patterns.

- Dependency injection in large Python applications.

5. Code Review Essentials:


- Identifying anti-patterns like excessive use of try-except blocks.

- Encouraging immutability in function arguments when possible.

- Recognizing when to use type hints vs. full-on static typing with mypy.

6. Database and ORM:

- Writing efficient ORM queries and avoiding N+1 problems in SQLAlchemy/Django ORM.

- Connection pooling strategies.

- Transaction management best practices.

7. Concurrency:

- Asyncio vs multithreading vs multiprocessing - when to use what.

- Deadlock and starvation scenarios in concurrent Python code.

- Using `concurrent.futures` for parallelism with ease.

These notes are intended for personal interview preparation and not sourced from any existing

online material.

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