We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focu... (more…)

In this tutorial, we will be exploring graphing word frequency in a text corpus. The program we will be creating will search through a plain text document and organize each unique word with its frequency. We will then graph the data we found using mat... (more…)

The problemLet's say you have more than one version of Python installed on your machine. What version does python3 point to? If you said, "the newest version", you may actually be wrong. That's because python3 points at the last version of Python you inst... (more…)

Have you ever thought about how the for loop is implemented in Python? I always thought it would iterate over all elements in the sequence, like it does, but that first it would query the sequence to know its length and then request that many elements. Tu... (more…)

A while back I wrote a post on using with game engines as frontend interfaces. I want to enable rich interfaces in the Python ecosystem that are usable in virtual and augmented reality. Since then, I… (more…)