Effective Tuesday, June 20th, 2017, new Python applications pushed to Heroku will use the python-3.6.1 runtime by default (instead of python-2.7.13). (more…)

Python 3.6.2rc1 is now available.   Python 3.6.2rc1 is the release candidate for the next maintenance release of Python 3.6.  See the change... (more…)

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…)

If you live in a major city, there’s a good chance you’ve used (or at least heard of) food delivery services like Postmates, GrubHub, or DoorDash. These services are great for times when I’m behind on groceries or when I’m getting some late night studying... (more…)

This week, Twitter upped their single-tweet character limit from 140 to 280, purportedly based on this interesting analysis of tweet lengths published on Twitter's engineering blog. The gist of the analysis is this: English language tweets display a rough... (more…)