Since discovering Dev Containers and Github Codespaces a few months ago, I've become a wee bit of a addict. I love having an environment cus... (more…)

Python is one of the most popular programming languages today. It’s an interpreted and high-level language with elegant and readable syntax. However, Python is generally significantly slower than Java, C#, and especially C, C++, or Fortran. Sometimes perf... (more…)

The Python return statement is such a fundamental part of writing functions. Is it possible you missed some best practices when writing your own return statements? This week on the show, David Amos returns with another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles a... (more…)

The naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget... (more…)

At Instagram, we have the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework, which is written entirely in Python. We began using… (more…)