The old GvR quote still holds: If you want your code to run faster, you should probably just use PyPy. For my serialization library, the performance improved a lot between 3.6 and 3.11, but since then it has mostly stayed the same. PyPy p... (more…)

It was a magical, “aha!” moment when I first learned about multithreading. The fact that I could ask my computer to do actions in a parallel manner delighted me (although it should be noted here… (more…)

<p>Iterators in python iterate sequences, but also iterate objects that exhibit sequence behavior, such as keys in a dictionary, lines in a file, and so on.</p> <p>An iterator is an object that has a (more…)

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. (more…)

This week, Twitter upped their single-tweet character limit from 140 to 280, purportedly based on this interesting analysis of tweet lengths published on Twitter's engineering blog. The gist of the analysis is this: English language tweets display a rough... (more…)