In this episode, Christopher interviews Jon Fincher from the Real Python Team. Jon talks about his recent articles on PyGame and Arcade. They discuss if game programming is a good way to develop your Python programming skills, and if a game would make a g... (more…)

annoy - Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage and loading/saving to disk... (more…)

TL;DR: Use Flake8, pytest, and Sphinx in your current Python project. Also evaluate pre-commit, black, and Pylint. For your next project, consider adding poetry and Dependabot. I always find it… (more…)

It is widely believed that in Python the usage of list comprehension would always be faster than for-loops. This paper shows that it is faster, but only for simple functions used in loops. (more…)

The official home of the Python Programming Language... (more…)