When you start using Python, the first few days are easy. You run python app.py and pip install whenever you need something. Many small programs work just fine that way. However, by the time you ...

It’s no secret that I rather enjoy connecting things to the Internet for fun and profit. One of the tricks I’ve learned along the way is to spin up simple APIs that can be used when prototyping a ...

Take dynamic typing as an example. It seems amazing at first: Python literally figures out by itself what sort of value a variable might take, and you don’t need to waste another line of code by ...

Elegantly manage Python virtual environments and project requirements. Poetry gives Python all-in-one management controls akin to what you might enjoy with Go and Rust. A Rust-based solution to a ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

From graphing calculators to interactive notebooks, Python eases you into programming, no GOTOs required.