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…)

Why Python? A common question we get is: why Python? Isn’t it too slow? How do you scale it to the size of your team? How do you ensure your software is robust? A Lingua Franca The biggest strength of Python is that everyone can use it. We have carefully ... (more…)

On newly created Ubuntu 16.04 AWS instances, we started seeing that python3.6 -m pip no longer works after get-pip.py (version 19.3.1). get-pip puts pip in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip-20.2... (more…)

PyVISA is a Python package that enables you to control all kinds of measurement devices independently of the interface (e.g. GPIB, RS232, USB, Ethernet). As an example, reading self-identification from a Keithley Multimeter with GPIB number 12 is as easy ... (more…)

Constant-factor differences are frequently ignored when analyzing the complexity of algorithms and implementations, as they appear to be insignificant in practice In this paper, we demonstrate that this assumption can in fact have far more profound implic... (more…)