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, ...

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...

In Python, a SyntaxError happens when the interpreter finds code that does not conform to the rules of the Python language. This means the code is structured in a way that Python cannot understand or ...

Boolean logic is an essential part of mathematics, engineering, and programming. In most languages, there's a dedicated ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

The Python star pattern challenge is a popular task often assigned to new programming students. To complete the challenge, developers must demonstrate competency with variables, ranges and nested ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to compute the Wasserstein distance and explains why it is often preferable to alternative distance functions, used to measure the distance between ...