This describes reliable patterns of coding Python Extensions in C. It covers the essentials of reference counts, exceptions and creating functions that are safe and efficient.

If you want your program to use less memory, you will need to measure memory usage. You’ll want to measure the current usage, and then you’ll need to ensure it’s using less memory once you make some improvements. It turns out, however, that measuring memo…

In this short post I will try to convince you of how easy it is to find performance issues in your Python code and how you should develop the habit of profiling your code before you ship it.

Intro The goal of this tutorial is to describe Python development ecosystem. It can be helpful for someone coming to Python from another programming language. They say that you should stick to algorithms and data structures, that you can learn a new langu…

Whenever I started learning about parsing and writing interpreters, I would get to how to handle comments. The gist of it was simple: just throw them out! You find them in the raw text output as you are generating lexing tokens, and discard them, meaning …

In 1991 Guido van Rossum released the first version of the Python programming language. About that time the world began to witness a major change…

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Python has become the de facto language for scientific computing. Programming in Python is highly productive, mainly due to its rich science-oriented software ecosystem built around the NumPy module. As a result, the demand for Python support in High Perf…

As Python’s lifetime grinds to a halt, a hot new competitor is emerging. Julia is fast, versatile, easy to learn, and has a budding community.