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An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

This past semester, I took an introductory Python course with roughly fifty undergraduate and a handful of graduate peers. The course—“COMP 10: Computer Science For All”—was designed specifically for ...

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If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...

Learn how Mypy's type checking works with functions and generators. In my last two articles I've described some of the ways Mypy, a type checker for Python, can help identify potential problems with ...

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