Python tutorials often teach you the syntax, in this series we are trying to learn python by building a book sharing app... (more…)

Every programming language aims to be performant and Python is no exception. In this essay, we dive deep into Python internals and find out how Python makes its interpreter performant using a technique called Constant Folding. (more…)

Python’s pickle module is a very convenient way to serialize and de-serialize objects. It needs no schema, and can handle arbitrary Python objects. But it has problems. This post briefly explains the problems. (more…)

A conversation with a coworker turned me on to the fact that a surprising range of operations in Python are atomic, even operations like dictionary … (more…)

The popular PyTorch Python project for data scientists and machine learning developers has become the latest open source project to be targeted with a dependency confusion attack. (more…)