Decorators in Python are a prime-time example of a perfectly implemented feature. It does take a while to wrap your head around, but it’s worth it.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

Improved IntelliSense support for Jupyter Notebooks highlights the September 2022 update of Python dev tooling in Visual Studio Code. That tooling comes in extensions for Python (64 million installs, ...

Even so, the Experimental - Python for the Web (Preview) extension in the VS Code Marketplace has been installed 283 times as of this writing (see screenshot above). The item description lists the ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

According to The Register, VS Code is one of the most popular Python IDEs. In fact, there wasn’t much difference in its user base (29%) compared to that of the winner, JetBrains PyCharm (33% ...

How Python uses type hints (it doesn’t) A key misconception about Python type hints is how they’re used. Python type hints are not used at runtime, at least not ordinarily. In fact, when your ...

He says that the main beneficiaries of upcoming changes to Python will be those running "CPU-intensive pure Python code" and users of websites with built-in Python. There, however, won't be much ...