Once you have learned your way around Python and want to make your programming useful, I recommend that you pick up the O’Reilly book Programming Python by Mark Lutz, now in its second edition.

Python has a wealth of scientific computing tools, so how do you decide which ones are right for you? This book cuts through ... on classes and object-oriented programming, writing self ...

Improve your Python testing even more. In my last two articles, I introduced pytest, a library for testing Python code (see "Testing Your Code with ... mention it in the test's parameter list. Then, ...

but the Python programming language was once considered a gap-filler, a way to write scripts that “automate the boring stuff” (as one popular book on learning Python put it) or to rapidly ...

SEE: Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward Python's move to top spot on the Tiobe index was a result of other languages falling in searches rather than Python ...