Although Python code is almost always fast enough for the task, sometimes it isn’t. In those cases, you need to find out where and why it lags, and do something about it.

Among the tools available for profiling the performance of Python code, the simplest is the timeit module.timeit is used to measure the speed of small snippets of code — a few lines, a function ...

Bloomberg’s Python Infrastructure team supports the more than 3,000 engineers at Bloomberg who write code using the Python programming language. The team provides critical infrastructure to ...