A 10th-class question paper shocked an assistant professor of Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) after it asked the kids to write a Python program for chatbots. The questions, which were ...

Written in Rust, the PyApp utility wraps up Python programs into self-contained click-to-run executables. It might be the easiest Python packager yet. Every developer knows how hard it is to ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

I work in a lab where laptops are pervasive. They pushed out calculators, which decades earlier did the same to slide rules. As calculators become more powerful, for some jobs the Prime could be more ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen TVs, ...