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 ...

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

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 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 ...