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, ...

These are my go-to libraries for Python data crunching.

Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...