Given a directory that contains: We can create a runme.sh file to always make sure we are running python 3. Create a shell script Create a file called runme.sh and put the following code in: Now instead of running python app.py or python3 app.py, you can ... (more…)

Nothing forecasts the future of a programming language better than the epos of its community. For Python, one word dominates the discussions of the past few years: performance. (more…)

For many quantitative business professionals, the debate around analytics tools has been known to rival the enthusiasm of political conversations at Thanksgiving dinner. Over the past two years we’ve sent out an immensely popular SAS vs. R survey to our n... (more…)

As we were the first to report in September 2019, JPMorgan had a few issues with Python's decision to stop supporting Python 2 from January 2020. - The U.S. bank built its Athena risk and pricing platform in Python 2.7 and had 35 million lines of code to ... (more…)

The release of Django 2.0 was a milestone in the history of Python since it completely dropped support for Python 2.x. I am a long time user of Django and, loyal to the philosophy of “if it is working don’t change” I was always using Python 2.x. (more…)