Most Python programmers don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how equality and hashing works. It usually just works. However there’s quite a bit of gotchas and edge cases that can lead to subtle and frustrating bugs once one starts to customize their... (more…)

Python edition of ActivePapers. Contribute to activepapers/activepapers-python development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

Abstract Syntax Trees, ASTs, are a powerful feature of Python. You can write programs that inspect and modify Python code, after the syntax has been parsed, but before it gets compiled to byte code. That opens up a world of possibilities for introspection... (more…)

Probably like many people, I've been hearing for years now that January of 2020 was the end of life for Python 2, specifically January 1st. As a result, I was rather surprised to hear that there will be another release of Python 2 in April, although I cou... (more…)

As a self-taught developer, I struggled most of the time reading whitepapers, or going through data science courses that contain… (more…)