PyMOTW-3 is a series of articles written by Doug Hellmann to demonstrate how to use the modules of the Python 3 standard library. It is based on the original PyMOTW series, which covered Python 2.7. See About Python Module of the Week for details includi... (more…)

Pylance is now the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code, providing IntelliSense functionality as of the May 2021 release of the Python Extension for VS Code. (more…)

This is the first post in the series “Hunting Performance in Python Code”. Through each post I’ll present some of the tools and profilers that exists for Python code and how each … (more…)

In preparation for the latest PizzaPY I browsed the code of Python's requests library. (You've got to love open source.) I'm of the opinion that must read lots of code in order to be able to write decent code yourself. The more diverse you read, the bette... (more…)

This is an introduction to data scraping using Python. For those of you who always wanted to learn how to scrape data for any particular reason, this is the place to start. (more…)