Learn how to use pip, python's standard package-management system and how it allows you to install third-party packages. (more…)

Grigore showed that Java generics are Turing complete by describing a reduction from Turing machines to Java subtyping. We apply Grigore's algorithm to Python type hints and deduce that they are Turing complete. In addition, we present an alternative redu... (more…)

Hadoop is mostly written in Java, but that doesn't exclude the use of other programming languages with this distributed storage and processing framework, particularly Python. With this concise book, you'll learn how to use Python with the Hadoop Distribut...

This blog post gives an introduction to some techniques for benchmarking, profiling and optimising Python code. If you would like to try the code examples for yourself, you can download the Jupyter notebook (right click the “Raw” button, save link as…) th... (more…)

The Python language, which is not new but continues to gain momentum and users as if it were, has changed remarkably little since it first was released.