At Instagram, we have the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework, which is written entirely in Python. We began using… (more…)

Some recent studies estimate that between 100 to 150 million computers worldwide would be directly infected by at least one malware such as Trojan or Keylogger in order to be remotely monitored or controlled by hackers. (more…)

By dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run… (more…)

There are several pandas methods which accept the regex in pandas to find the pattern in a String within a Series or Dataframe object. These methods works on the same line as Pythons re module. Its really helpful if you want to find the names starting wit... (more…)

A function is a block of code that performs an operation usually a specific task. Functions help break our program into smaller and modular chunks, making them resusable and redable. They prevent repetition of code. You can pass data known as parameters... (more…)