Python classes can make your code more complicated than necessary. So when should you use classes, and when should you use standard functions instead?

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language.

It's been a leap-ahead year for Python—bringing on more speed, less cruft, and a large and growing user base.

What just happened? For the first time in more than 20 years, the Python programming language has overtaken Java, JavaScript, and C as the most popular language. The updated rankings for October ...