In the last post introducing Python, I demonstrated how to make a simple app using variables and conditional statements. In order to do anything really powerful in a given programming language though, ...

Learning how to define a function in Python is one of the most important steps to mastering the language. Functions are blocks of code that perform a specific task and can be “called” from any point ...

Learn the NumPy trick for generating synthetic data that actually behaves like real data.

As with other programming languages, Python has libraries to make coding tasks easier. Here's how you can take advantage of them, and how you can create your own libraries as well. Libraries are ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...

Python trades runtime speed for programmer convenience, and most of the time it’s a good tradeoff. One doesn’t typically need the raw speed of C for most workaday applications. And when you need to ...