We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focu... (more…)

A guide to modern Python tooling with a focus on simplicity and minimalism. (more…)

Posted by Jianhua Li on GitHub. This was proposed as a data science project on Data Science Central, to challenge your data science skills on a real data set.…

Every programming language aims to be performant and Python is no exception. In this essay, we dive deep into Python internals and find out how Python makes its interpreter performant using a technique called Constant Folding. (more…)

In Python, everything is object. Functions in Python are first-class objects which means that they can be stored in a variable, added in the lists, passed as arguments to another function etc. With… (more…)