Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive REPL functionality. Standing for Read-Eval-Print Loop, a REPL provides an ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s. Many detractors felt ...

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a messy spreadsheet of survey data, wondering how to make sense of it all, you’re not alone. From split headers to inconsistent blanks, the challenges of ...

It’s easy to get caught up in technology wars—Python versus Java versus NextBigLanguage—but the hardest part of AI isn’t the tools, it’s the people. Domain knowledge, skills, and adoption matter more ...

The December 2023 update to Python in Visual Studio Code introduces several new features, including configurable debugging options that are now available on the Run button menu. [Click on image for ...

Python compares better to C++ or Java than it does to perl.<BR><BR>It's an OO scripting language, very easy to develop in, but rather slow.<BR><BR>I do beleive Perl is quite a bit faster than python - ...

Microsoft's new all-in-one data-science pack for Python in VS Code gave developers plenty to celebrate this month. Also check out Modin (a drop-in replacement for Pandas), Hy 1.0.0, and Spyder 6.

Python often gets a bad rap in terms of performance. Critics often move the goal posts mid-discussion, either unintentionally or simply to get a rise out of Python developers. Here's a typical ...

I looked at th Python-C interfaces before (but never got around to doing the project) and while it may be some work it seems like it's very well documented. (There's an entire manual on python.org ...

I’m a big fan of Python — the open source programming language. In case you’re wondering, Python is indeed named after the BBC comedy group Monty Python. The language was created around 1990 by Guido ...