Exploring financial data with object-oriented programming and additive models ... (more…)

At Instagram, we have the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework, which is written entirely in Python. We began using… (more…)

For more than a decade, ActiveState has hosted a vast repository of code recipes and discussions over at https://code.activestate.com/ - but in recent years it began to seem out-of-sync with the way developers shared code. New users and recipe updates had... (more…)

If your application needs to measure elapsed time, you need a timer that will give the right answer even if the user changes the time on the system clock... (more…)

It seems a recurring complaint that we’re too aggressive on cleaning Python 2 up from packages. Why remove it if (package’s) upstream still supports py2? Why remove it when it still works? Why remove it when somebody’s ready to put some work to keep it... (more…)