Why write ten lines of code when one will do? From magic variable swaps to high-speed data counting, these Python snippets ...

If there’s one thing that makes Python incredibly successful, that would be its readability. Everything else hinges on that: if code is unreadable, it’s hard to maintain. It’s also not ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

A superset of Python that compiles to C, Cython combines the ease of Python with the speed of native code. Here's a quick guide to making the most of Cython in your Python programs. Python has a ...

A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Python is arguably the most popular programming language in the world thanks to machine learning, but its big weakness is performance: it needs high-end hardware, often leans on graphics cards, ...