Python 3.13 has been released with a slight delay on the home straight. The new interactive shell aims to make development more convenient. In addition, the global interpreter lock can now be ...

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive REPL functionality. Standing for Read-Eval-Print Loop, a REPL provides an ...

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 early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

On Halloween 2018 a developer filed an issue in the GitHub repo for the VS Code Python extension, asking for the ability for users to "spin up multiple 'Python Interactive' windows." In August 2020, ...