Why write ten lines of code when one will do? From magic variable swaps to high-speed data counting, these Python snippets ...

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.

Abstract: As bugs of Python built-in types can cause code crashes, detecting them is critical to the robustness of the software. Researchers have concluded plenty of patterns for the bug causes and ...

We are thrilled to announce that User defined functions (UDFs) in Power Apps have reached general availability! They are now ready for your production workloads. Thank you to everyone who provided ...

Institute of Special Materials and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R ...

Ever feel like you’re spending more time squashing bugs than actually building something? You’re not alone—developers spend a whopping 35% of their time debugging and reviewing code instead of writing ...

Gear up for spring with our favorite how-to's and to-do's for Python developers—starting with the new, built-in async/await syntax and asyncio library.

Sets aren’t quite the same in the context of programming languages. For example, in most commonly used programming languages with a set datatype, two sets containing the same elements are considered ...

Everything on a computer is at its core a binary number, since computers do everything with bits that represent 0 and 1. In order to have a file that is "plain text", so human readable with minimal ...

While we have the Python built-in function sum() which sums the elements of a sequence (provided the elements of the sequence are all of numeric type), it’s instructive to see how we can do this in a ...