Whether you’re building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing software. Flojoy, an ...

Overview Python's "ast" module transforms the text of Python source code into an object stream. It's a more powerful way to walk through Python code, analyze its components, and make changes than ...

Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a "full" language server mode for Pylance, ...

One of the biggest and most exciting new features in Python 3.15 is the new statistical sampling profiler. This is a massive change that’s going to make a lot of developers' liv ...

In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

This half-month report includes a way to add type hints automatically to untyped Python code, getting started with Django 5, and a deep dive into CPython garbage collection and memory management. What ...