Python objects and modules. Last week, ... type() to get its type (note that even types have a type – yep, their type is ‘type’); and isinstance() to test the type. ...

This article is weird. “Python has objects” isn’t even catching it properly. As in python, EVERYTHING is an object. Strings, an object. Modules, objects.

But if you decorate the Python code with type annotations in Cython’s special syntax, Cython will be able to substitute fast C equivalents for slow Python objects. Note that Cython’s approach ...

I'm going to show you one of the coolest features that Python has, and I guarantee that after you watch this video, you're going to look at Python code completely differently. So let's get into it and ...

Speed improvements. Many individual performance improvements landed in Python 3.11, but the single biggest addition is the specializing adaptive interpreter.Since an object’s type rarely changes ...

Modify one or more attributes, as you would with any other Python object and then save the updated object. Here, I load the first (unordered) record from the database before updating it: >>> a = ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated since its original publication. It's been 20 years or more since I wrote my first few hundred lines of code in C, so it's about time I learned a more ...

Python is a versatile, powerful language but sometimes it’s not the best choice, especially if you’re doing work in embedded systems with limited memory. Sometimes you can get away with… ...