To gain a performance boost and avoid reallocation of frequently used integers, Python creates singleton instances of small integer values and uses them by reference. (more…)

A "fold" is a fundamental primitive in defining operations on data structures; it's particularly important in functional languages where recursion is the default tool to express repetition. In this article I'll present how left and right folds work and ho... (more…)

For this next blog post in my series of Python's syntactic sugar, I'm tackling what would seem to be a very simple bit of syntax, but which actually requires diving into multiple layers to fully implement: not. On the surface, the definition of not is ver... (more…)

Learn Python for Data Science in this full course curated by the data science team at Kharpann. This course will take you from zero to hero in Python. (more…)

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, gr... (more…)