Contribute to faster-cpython/ideas development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

If you have a passing interest in anything gaming related and haven't been living under a rock for the last couple years, you're probably somewhat familiar with Cyberpunk 2077. (more…)

Python 2 is officially dead now (cf), with the python.org release of 2.17.18, the last release of Python 2 (also). That means that what happens now is its afterlife, because Python 2 being 'dead' doesn't mean that it's gone, and Python 2 is shaping up to ... (more…)

Fredrik Lundh crafted our current string search algorithms, and they've served us very well. They're nearly always as fast as dumbest-possible brute force search, and sometimes much faster. This was bought with some very cheap one-pass preprocessing of t... (more…)

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes... (more…)