Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer best known as the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "Benevolent dictator for life" (BDF... (more…)

Recently I had a discussion over Reddit over why would someone would use Python over other programming languages. The discussion was pretty good and thus I thought about writing a post about it. First of all, let me give you my thoughts on Python. Python ... (more…)

By dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run…...

Python 3.6.0 came out day before yesterday, and it was like a Christmas present for many of us. But in the midst of all the celebration…...

I recently had a small visualization that I wanted to do: Given a 3D stack of images, plot them with the ability to interactively flip through the stack. Also, I wanted to have it work on a static site like Github Pages (e.g. this site). (more…)