I wanted to share what I think is a neat implementation of currying in Python. Getting the arity of a function First we need to be able to get the arity of a function. This is how we do it:   … (more…)

Last year, we did a recap with what we thought were the best Python libraries of 2015, which was widely shared within the Python community (see post in r/Python). A year has gone by, and again it is time to give due credit for the awesome work that has be...

Each day, over 95 million photos and videos are shared on Instagram. The unstoppable photo-centric social media platform has over 600 million registered users — 400 million of whom are active every day. Talk about operating at scale: Instagram kills it at... (more…)

This was originally written/published by Gareth Dwyer on the DevelopIntelligence blog. (more…)

The sheer size of the Python package management ecosystem can be daunting not only to beginners, but also to Python veterans as the number of available package managers seems to be ever-increasing. Should you go with the default pip and its requirements.t... (more…)