Learn how to measure code execution time in Python reliably using a line fitting method that eliminates errors as suggested by Moreno and Fischmeister. (more…)

Cardiff University is encouraging a new generation of programmers in southern Africa to embrace a multi-billion pound industry that helps power major web-bas... (more…)

A critical but informative look at the new structural pattern matching feature in Python 3.10, with real-world code examples. (more…)

A command pattern that I’ve used in multiple projects is an event-loop sidecar. The sidecar runs on it’s own thread and does asynchronous IO; thereby increasing the responsiveness of the system which could be doing IO/CPU bound work. The application (runn... (more…)

Collecting (i.e., scraping data) using Python and Scrapy - example with code... (more…)