Hello! As a precursor to writing a Ruby profiler I wanted to do a survey of how existing Ruby & Python profilers work. This also helps answer a question a lot of folks have been asking me, which is “How do you write a profiler?”... (more…)

2to3 is a Python program that reads Python 2.x source code and applies a series of fixers to transform it into valid Python 3.x code. The standard library contains a rich set of fixers that will handle almost all code. 2to3 supporting library lib2to3 is...

Welcome to “Fun with Python”, part 1. In this part, we will automate maze creation, utilizing Prim’s randomized algorithm. (more…)

Learn to build a Boba Tea Shop finder using Python, the Google Maps API and the GeoJSON library. (more…)

Let’s say that you have a binary tree and we needed to know it’s maximum depth. Binary tree input data [3,9,20,null,null,15,7] could be visualised as follows: In the above example, the depth would be 3. As there are 3 levels. How would we write some Pytho... (more…)