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Lesson 162: Reading text streams safely (StringIO warmup)

Focus

This page is deliberate repetition with new literals: Basic drills Reading text streams safely (StringIO warmup); spin token 1381157 makes this page unlike its neighbours.

Key ideas

Angle Basic: micro cadence 2 mixes Reading text streams safely (StringIO warmup); spin 61989.
Ritual: Swap one benign literal twice to see binding effects.
Guardrail: name the surprise that triggered when literals shifted.

Example (`LESSON_UID = "basic-162"`)

# Basic drill L162 topic-16 micro-1 pattern-2
LESSON_UID = "basic-162"
spin_a, spin_b, spin_c = 729, 955, 990

blob = "598|B"
head, sep, tail = blob.partition("|")
print(tuple(zip(head, reversed(tail))))
filt = [ch for ch in head if ord(ch) % (spin_a % 5 + 2) != 0]
print("filt", filt)

Practice

Practice 29: Discuss packaging layout deltas if helpers became a module. Literal nudge 29.

Fingerprints

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