Python’s pickle module is a very convenient way to serialize and de-serialize objects. It needs no schema, and can handle arbitrary Python objects. But it has problems. This post briefly explains the problems. (more…)

If you're interviewing for an investment banking analyst or junior trading job at JPMorgan, and you don't know how to code in Python,... (more…)

Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python. (more…)

DEAP is a novel evolutionary computation framework for rapid prototyping and testing of ideas. It seeks to make algorithms explicit and data structures transparent. It works in perfect harmony with parallelisation mechanism such as multiprocessing and SC... (more…)

Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. (more…)