Why You Should Think Twice Before Using Returns in Python

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Struggling with Python's unpredictable errors and None checks? In this video, I share a unique approach to making your code cleaner and more reliable using the returns package—no complicated try-except nests required.

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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Why do we need a package like this?
3:02 Introduction to the Returns Package
3:18 What Are Containers?
3:55 The Maybe Container: Handling Missing Data Elegantly
6:40 Using Structural Pattern Matching with Maybe
8:01 Railway-Oriented Programming in Python
11:01 Mapping Exceptions to Railway-Oriented Programming
12:36 Using the @safe Decorator for Automatic Error Handling
14:12 The IO Container: Managing Side Effects
17:53 Should You Use the returns Package?
20:57 Final thoughts

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