By dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run… (more…)
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You may already know it, but anyway, the * unary operator in Python (also called
splat operator) expands any iterable (e. g. lists, tuples, sets and
generators) into function positional arguments. For example: (more…)
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Pip 25.0 has been out for a bit over a month now; and we now also have an official blog post about the release, as well as a 25.0.1 patch for a regression.
Pip 25.0 has what I consider a very serious (more…)
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OpenTelemetry released version 1.0 of the Python and Swift distributed tracing API and SDK. They both include OpenTelemetry API support, SDKs, exporters to common telemetry formats, and getting started materials. The Python release is considered stable wh... (more…)
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