Julia vs Python Should we ditch Python and other languages in favor of Julia for technical computing?  That's certainly a thought that comes to mind when one looks at the benchmarks on http://julialang.org/.  Python and other high level languages are way ... (more…)

Learn to perform the basics of geospatial analysis using Python along with the GeoJSON and GeoPandas libraries. (more…)

This article is a sequel to Unicode strings in Python: A basic tutorial. Read that... (more…)

Purely functional Python Functional programming is gaining in popularity as we move to an increasingly parallel world. Sometimes you want access to purely functional syntax and capabilities but you don't want to have to learn an entirely new language. Coc... (more…)

If you have written some Python code and used the for loop, you have already used iterators behind the scene but you probably didn’t know about it. Iterators are objects that we can iterate over one by one. They are practically everywhere in a Python code... (more…)