Adopt a Pythonic Mindset: Stop Thinking in Java

Explain Pythonic philosophy: readability over cleverness, expressive high-level constructs over verbose ceremony.

Apply EAFP (try/except) over LBYL (pre-checking) with practical examples, and identify when LBYL is appropriate.

Internalize the 'batteries included' mentality by searching stdlib (itertools, collections, pathlib) before writing custom solutions.

Favor composition and small, composable objects over deep class hierarchies for flexible and maintainable code.

Apply Python's truthiness rules (for empty containers, zero, and None) to write clean, idiomatic conditionals.

Explain how the data model integrates custom objects with Python via dunder methods (__repr__, __iter__, __len__).