Python is a general-purpose programming language for Web and desktop development. Python works well on both of these platforms because of its flexibility, facilitated by its extensive list of built-in ...

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whatever is a dummy variable that you can replace with other variables. Be sure to indent the statements to repeat in the loop. We need to have at least one condition to implement the loop and make ...

If you’ve ever written any Python at all, the chances are you’ve used iterators without even realising it. Writing your own and using them in your programs can provide significant performance ...

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, ...

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Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...