Pattern Matching. Contribute to gvanrossum/patma development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

In this short video I comment on the benefits of using "trailing commas" when defining data structures in… (more…)

Object-relational mappers (ORMs) are often used in Python programming when one needs to develop an application that works with databases. Examples of Python ORMs are SQLAlchemy, Peewee, Pony-ORM and Django. When choosing an ORM,  performance plays a cruci... (more…)

For many types of applications, at times it is necessary to pause the running of the program until some external condition occurs. You may need to wait until another thread finishes, or maybe until a new file appears in a directory on disk that is being w... (more…)

Python for Scientists and Engineers is now free to read online. The table of contents is below, but please read this important info before. Python for Scientists and Engineers was the first book I … (more…)