There are several pandas methods which accept the regex in pandas to find the pattern in a String within a Series or Dataframe object. These methods works on the same line as Pythons re module. Its really helpful if you want to find the names starting wit... (more…)

We started this series with an overview of the CPython VM. We learned that to run a Python program, CPython first compiles it to bytecode, and we... (more…)

We recently showed that, based on Stack Overflow question visits, Python has a claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language, and that it has become the most visited tag on Stack Overflow within high-income countries. (more…)

What does it take to power PyPI in this current day and age? (more…)

We're going to write a clone of Arkanoid (Breakout) using Python and PyGame Zero. In this post, I want to show you how easy it is to write a simple game. Let's get started! All the code is available here: https://github.com/shantnu/arkanoid-clone The imag... (more…)