SALT messages are encoded with a library called msgpack, the Python implementation of MessagePack. How can we read them?

Python string interpolation is available via few of interfaces, as Chris at Hashrocket taught me.

If I’ve defined a function in the Python REPL, I can read its definition with inspect.getsource.

In the Python REPL, the help function provides a help message about its argument.

I’ve been learning a bit of Python this Fall to facilitate conversations with a mentee. In this post, I’m going to share the first Python function I’ve ever written, a solution to the Exercism challenge ‘Raindrops’.