A while ago, I was asked by a former colleague about the best way to convert Parquet files into comma-separated values (CSV) format using Python. The honest answer? It depends. And so on and so on ...

Although geneticists agree that the giant molecules of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) contain the coded information that controls the development of living organisms, they have yet to decipher the ...

TEXAS — The Texas election code reads that only U.S. citizens can vote or register to vote in Texas, and the state constitution outlines the same thing. But lawmakers concerned about noncitizens ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

We didn’t fully understand the experiment we were beginning, but this was the question driving our search, the point of curiosity that started our not-quite-scientific process. As women who were once ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Ready to develop your first AWS Lambda function in Python? It really couldn’t be easier. The AWS ...

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...

Generative AI virtual assistant Amazon Q was unveiled by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky in 2023. Image: AWS A threat actor managed to insert a data-wiping prompt into Amazon’s AI coding assistant Q in July, ...

What is most striking about Python’s latest wave of third-party tooling is that they aren’t written in Python. Instead, many of the newer tools for project management, code formatting, and now type ...

Sabine Hyland receives funding from the British Academy, the British Museum, the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the ...