In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

These are my go-to libraries for Python data crunching.

Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...

Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

One of the most useful new features that Microsoft has incorporated into Excel in recent years is the ability to incorporate Python code directly into a spreadsheet. While it has long been possible to ...

A faster interpreter, more intelligible errors, more powerful type hints, and a slew of other speedups and tweaks are now ready to try out. The Python programming language releases new versions yearly ...