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		brhsagain on Sept 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Refurb – A tool for refurbishing and mode... I like how it teaches me things about Python that I didn't know. Just in the example, I didn't know about Path.read_text or str.startswith(<tuple>).

bityard on Sept 28, 2022 [–]

I didn't know about read_text() either and I was even somewhat embarrassed when I looked it up in the docs and discovered that it (and its bytes/write counterparts) were added in 3.5 which is basically forever ago.

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