Python’s new JIT compiler might be the biggest speed boost we’ve seen in a while, but it’s not without bumps. Get that news and more, in this week’s report.

So, you want to get into Python programming, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and for good reason. Lots of people are looking for good resources to learn it, especially free ones. We found a bunch ...

A man in Southwest Florida nabbed a 12+ foot invasive Burmese python in Rotonda West in Charlotte County. This is one of the largest invasive Burmese pythons captured here in the Sunshine State in a ...

Trying to get your hands on the “Python Crash Course Free PDF” without breaking any rules? You’re not alone—lots of folks are looking for a legit way to ...

I am building Sqlite and NSS from the last GLFS, now Version #8c24: Sqlite is build without 32 multilib support, so no /usr/lib32/libsqlite3.so ... but when you build NSS lib32 $([ -f ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

Physical media fans, this is a preorder well worth picking up for your collection: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is getting a 50th anniversary 4K steelbook (see here at Amazon). Huzzah! The beloved ...

Here we make explicit the connection between subscript notation in mathematics and indices in Python. In mathematics: Say we have a collection of objects X. We can refer to individual elements of the ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, originally released in 1975, is more widely available than ever now that it has just been added to The Roku Channel. This streaming app is popular among users of Roku ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...