Six examples of ways to refactor your Python code, and why they are improvements. (more…)

With this follow-along Python project, you'll build a script to calculate grades for a class using pandas. The script will quickly and accurately calculate grades from a variety of data sources. You'll see examples of loading, merging, and saving data wit... (more…)

When using a Python decorator, especially one defined in another library, they seem somewhat magical. Take for example Flask’s routing mechanism. If I put some statement like @app.route(&#822…...

Constant-factor differences are frequently ignored when analyzing the complexity of algorithms and implementations, as they appear to be insignificant in practice In this paper, we demonstrate that this assumption can in fact have far more profound implic... (more…)

Exploring two different strategies for using Makefiles in Python projects... (more…)