June 10, 2025

#english #python #taskwarrior

English - Reported Speech

• I am tired (Direct Speech) - She said she was tired (Reported Speech)
• I have finished work (Direct Speech) - He said he had finished (Reported Speech)
• I went to school (Direct Speech) - She said she had gone (Reported Speech)
• I will go (Direct Speech ) - He said he would go (Reported Speech)
• i can speak English (Direct Speech) - She said she could speak English (Reported Speech)

Reporting Questions

• Do you speak English? (Direct) - He asked if I spoke English
  • Use: asked if/whether + statement word order (no inversion)
• Wh-questions(where, what, why, how)
  • Where do you live? (Direct) - She asked where I lived

Taskwarrior

• The task reports show every possible report is possible with task warrior
  • burndown burndown chart completed tasks
  • next total of next task
  • history total of completions, deletions
  • list recurring and next tasks
  • active actived task
  • summary summary of the projects

Python - Function as objects

• It is possible to assign function to variables
• __doc__ to see function documentation
• High order functions are functions that receive functions as arguments
  • map and sorted are functions that receives other functions
  • sorted(fruits, key=len)
• map and filter can be replaced by list comprehension and generation
• Anonymous functions are used with lambda and the best usage is with high order functions
  • sorted (fruits, key=lambda word: word[::-1])
• callable are used to detect callable objects
  • __call__ can be implemented for classes
• functools.partial are used to implement partial functions
  • Partial functions use some arguments with object and use others to execute

Sources

• Fluent Python - Luciano Ramalho - 2023 - Second Edition - Web Edition
• chatgpt