Read ancient CPython source code, and learn a principle so pithy you can write it on the back of your hand. (more…)

In part two of this four-part Python introduction you’ll see how to write reusable “code building blocks” in your Python programs with functions. (more…)

Yep, you read that right. Visual Studio isn’t the first thing you think of when you hear “data science”, but that may just change soon. In Visual Studio 2017 they have included several tools together where you can do Python, R, and F# data projects for an... (more…)

Packaging Python has been a painful experience for long. The history of the various distribution that Python offered along the years is really bumpy, and both the user and developer experience has … (more…)

For the oil prototype, I used Python 3 rather than Python 2 to take advantage of both type annotations and type checking with mypy. The mypy type system seems fairly similar to the C++ type system, so these annotations should help when porting the parser...