If you wanted to prove your mettle as an entry-level banker or trader it used to be the case that you had to know all about financial modelling in Excel. Not any more. These days it's all about Python, especially on the trading floor. ... (more…)

How I generated a STL file from a list of coordinates for a 3D print. (more…)

I’ve been working for a while now on a bot that plays video games. I needed a way to capture the screen and send input to the game that was fast enough to let a bot interact with it in real time. I… (more…)

If you’ve done much Python development you’re probably familiar with importing dependencies using pip, or even easy_install, if you’ve been at this for awhile. Whether you were aware of it or not… (more…)

Tracing and visualizing the Python GIL with perf and VizTracer... (more…)