Next time you're in your IPython console and you get an error somewhere deep in your stack, run %debug. It's a post-mortem debugger, and it'll drop you in an interpreter right where the error happened. You can inspect all the variables, go up and down the... (more…)

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A collaboration of researchers from the University of California Davis, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Intel are working... (more…)

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Generator expressions are a high-performance, memory–efficient generalization of list comprehensions and generators. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use them from the ground up. (more…)