Have you ever cut open a camera lens to look at what's inside? I don't blame you if you haven't, lenses are ridiculously expensive and it's a one way operation. However, if you look at a picture of a (more…)

Cache rules everything around me. `pyc` files can contain secrets and should not be checked in to source control. Use the standard Python [.gitignore](https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Python.gitignore). (more…)

Contribute to chrisfauerbach/solve_wordscapes development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

Is it faster to “ask for forgiveness” or “look before you leap” in Python? And when it’s better to use one over the other? (more…)

This is the first post in the series “Hunting Performance in Python Code”. Through each post I’ll present some of the tools and profilers that exists for Python code and how each … (more…)