Hey again, My first post about optimization will be about __slots__ and namedtuples. __slots__ __slots__ have two important effects: performance: A class that utilizes slots gains ~30% faster attri…

Python must be doing something beautiful internally to support super long integers and today we find out what's under the hood. The article goes in-depth to explain design, storage, and operations on super long integers as implemented by Python. (more…)

He kind of needs to be. He’s the co-founder of Monty Python, the comedy troupe behind Monty Python and the Holy Grail — one of the greatest comedy films of all time. The group’s impact on comedy was… (more…)

Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests pe... (more…)

Python 3.3 standard library 'ipaddress' suffers from a critical IP address vulnerability (CVE-2021-29921) identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year. (more…)