In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

Python trades runtime speed for programmer convenience, and most of the time it’s a good tradeoff. One doesn’t typically need the raw speed of C for most workaday applications. And when you need to ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...

Interested in learning Python but don't know where to start? I'll walk you through the basics of the ever-popular programming language step-by-step. In an hour or so, you'll go from zero to writing ...

Why is your Python app so slow? Find out by using Python’s built-in profiler to locate bottlenecks in your Python code Python may not be the fastest language around, but it is often fast enough. And ...