We are pleased to announce that the May 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. (more…)

If there’s one blog that really “took off” after I wrote last year’s coverage on the Python Language Summit, it was my blog on Sam Gross’s proposal to make Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (the “GIL”) optional. One week following the publication of my art... (more…)

Python has won the TIOBE programming language of the year award! This is for the fourth time in the history, which is a record! The title is awarded to the programming language that has gained most popularity in one year. Python made a positive jump of ... (more…)

Are you doing a repetitive task that feels like it could be automated? I was. Every day for the past year I’d been importing new users for an app into MailChimp by hand. No more! Now that I’ve learned how to code I’ve handed that task over to Python and C... (more…)

When we’re working for clients we mostly come across the statistical programming languages SAS, SPSS, R and Python. Of these SAS and SPSS are probably the most used. However, the interest for the open source languages R and Python is increasing. In recent... (more…)