Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for ...

Data science is often cited as one of the main reasons for Python's growing popularity. But while people are definitely using Python for data analysis and machine learning, not many of those using ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Powerful and versatile as it is, Python lacks a few key capabilities out of the box. For one, there is no native mechanism for compiling a Python program into a standalone executable package. To be ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Python is one of the world’s most popular computer languages, with over 8 million developers (this is according to research from SlashData). The creator of Python is Guido van Rossum, a computer ...

The new PyScript project lets you embed Python programs directly in HTML pages and execute them within the browser without any server-based requirements. The project was announced this weekend at ...

I work in a lab where laptops are pervasive. They pushed out calculators, which decades earlier did the same to slide rules. As calculators become more powerful, for some jobs the Prime could be more ...