After around 18 months of development, Python 3.4 has been released. There were no new language changes for this release, but there were many new features in the standard library and CPython ...

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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.

Python for Kids by Jason R. Briggs (No Starch Press, 2013) is a super gentle introduction to Python and to programming in general. Rated for kids ten years and older (the back cover says 10+), the ...

Quixote is a web application framework for Python programmers. It was primarily developed by Andrew Kuchling, Neil Schemenauer and myself (Greg Ward) at the MEMS Exchange, in order to make our real ...

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Reticulate is a handy way to combine Python and R code. From the reticulate help page suggests that reticulate allows for: "Calling Python from R in a variety of ways including R Markdown, sourcing ...