One of my (slowly evaporating) reasons why I like putting packaging metadata into an executable setup.py is the ability to have optional dependencies that are combinations of others. As of pip 21.2, this is possible without running code. (more…)

We met up with Victor Stinner and Julien Danjou to discuss the performance of the programming language Python. (more…)

Automated end-to-end tests are a powerful tool for your team to ship faster and with more confidence. End-to-end tests automate UI interactions and can validate the functionality of your applications. To this end, we are announcing Playwright for Python i... (more…)

In python, the Requests library allows us to make HTTP requests in our code and this is very key since many modern applications make use of data from third-p... (more…)

Upgrading smart contracts in Ethereum has historically been a tedious process; however, because of a new storage feature in Ethereum, we can breeze through the upgrade process and focus our time on more important things. (more…)