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 ...

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 ...

Python.Org is the official source for documentation and beginner guides. Codecademy and Coursera offer interactive courses for learning Python basics. Think Python provides a free e-book for a ...

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 ...

Learn how Mypy's type checking works with functions and generators. In my last two articles I've described some of the ways Mypy, a type checker for Python, can help identify potential problems with ...